The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 85

She left this flower-coloured scarf for you; said she would pass by to-morrow at seven o’clock, but it would be the last time.’

Who acts: Princess, scarf · What happens: leave, say, pass, be · To what, where: coloured scarf, seven o’clock, last time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, scarf), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 scarf	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coloured	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 flower	punct
6	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scarf	amod
7	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 left	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pass	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pass	aux
14	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 morrow	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 morrow	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 to	punct
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pass	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 o’clock	case
20	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 o’clock	nummod
21	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pass	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 time	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 time	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 time	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 time	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 time	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pass	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Princess	this coloured scarf		for you	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent scarf=Theme for you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Princess not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pass	would	Princess		seven o’clock	by morrow	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by morrow=Location
4	is a	would	scarf	the last time			tree rules

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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