The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 82
He would not leave her until she had promised to see him again the next night, which Turritella did willingly enough.
Who acts: King, chance, Turritella · What happens: not leave, promise, see, do · To what, where: chance, King, next night
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, chance, Turritella), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 leave | advmod |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | obj |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 promised | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 promised | aux |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 leave | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 night | amod |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 did | obj |
| 19 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 night | acl:relcl |
| 21 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 20 did | advmod |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 did | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | would | King | chance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | chance | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | chance not said here | King | again; night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | do | past | Turritella | the next night | enough, willingly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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