The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 151
At the same hour Guilbert returned to the country, and, as he had never ceased to love Renelde, he married her eight days later.
Who acts: Guilbert · What happens: return, not cease, love, marry · To what, where: Renelde
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guilbert), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hour | amod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 5 | Guilbert | Guilbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ceased | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ceased | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 ceased | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ceased | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ceased | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 ceased | advmod |
| 17 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 returned | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 love | mark |
| 19 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ceased | xcomp |
| 20 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 love | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 married | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 married | nsubj |
| 23 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 married | obj |
| 25 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 days | nummod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 later | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 married | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Guilbert | hour | to the country result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result | |||
| 2 | not cease | past · perfect | Guilbert | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | Guilbert not said here | Renelde | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer renelde=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | marry | past | Guilbert | Renelde | late property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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