The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 81

Girouette, whose business it was to see after Souci, had forgotten his existence in the excitement of some new idea, and he would not have been alive long to trouble anybody if Aveline had not come to the rescue and whispered in his ear, ‘And the skein of thread?’

Who acts: prisoner, Girouette, Aveline · What happens: see, forget, not be, not come, whisper, exist · To what, where: existence, excitement, rescue, ear, new idea

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, Girouette, Aveline), 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	Girouette	Girouette	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 forgotten	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 business	punct
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 business	nmod:poss
4	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Girouette	appos
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 business	acl:relcl
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 Souci	case
10	Souci	Souci	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Girouette	punct
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgotten	aux
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 existence	nmod:poss
15	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgotten	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 excitement	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 excitement	det
18	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgotten	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 idea	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 idea	det
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 idea	amod
22	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 excitement	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 alive	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 alive	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 alive	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 alive	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 alive	advmod
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 alive	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 alive	cop
30	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forgotten	conj
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 alive	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	34 anybody	mark
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 anybody	compound
34	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 alive	advcl
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 come	mark
36	Aveline	Aveline	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 come	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 come	advmod
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forgotten	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 rescue	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rescue	det
42	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 come	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 whispered	cc
44	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgotten	conj
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 ear	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 ear	nmod:poss
47	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 whispered	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 skein	punct
49	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	52 skein	punct
50	And	and	CCONJ	_	52 skein	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 skein	det
52	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 whispered	parataxis
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 thread	case
54	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 skein	nmod
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	52 skein	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	52 skein	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	prisoner			after Souci		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	forget	past · perfect	Girouette	Girouette's existence	the excitement of some new idea			tree rules
3	not is	would · perfect	Girouette				alive, long property	tree rules
4	not come a condition, not said to happen	past	Aveline		the rescue			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location
5	whisper speech: assert	past	Girouette not said here		Girouette's ear			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
6	exist		Girouette					nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent
7	excite			some new idea				nom excitement «feeling transitive»: of=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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