The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 33

Grannonia alone kept her presence of mind, and although both her father and mother implored her to fly for her life, she wouldn’t move a step, saying, ‘I’m certainly not going to fly from the man you have chosen for my husband.’

Who acts: Grannonia, father, I, you · What happens: keep, implore, fly, not move, say, be · To what, where: presence, Grannonia, step, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grannonia, father, I, you), 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	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 presence	nmod:poss
5	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 mind	case
7	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 presence	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 implored	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 implored	cc
10	although	although	SCONJ	_	16 implored	mark
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	13 father	cc:preconj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 implored	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mother	cc
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	conj
16	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 implored	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fly	mark
19	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 implored	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 life	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fly	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 move	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 move	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 move	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 move	advmod
27	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kept	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 step	det
29	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 move	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 move	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ’m	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 ’m	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 ’m	nsubj
35	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 saying	ccomp
36	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	38 going	advmod
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 going	advmod
38	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 ’m	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 fly	mark
40	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 going	xcomp
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 man	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 man	det
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fly	obl
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 chosen	nsubj
45	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 chosen	aux
46	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 man	acl:relcl
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 husband	case
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 husband	nmod:poss
49	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 chosen	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Grannonia	Grannonia's presence of mind		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme
2	implore	past	Grannonia's father and mother		Grannonia		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	fly	to-infinitive	Grannonia's father and mother not said here			for Grannonia's life	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not move	would	Grannonia	a step			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent step=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Grannonia not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be	present	I				tree rules
7	not go	gerund	I not said here			certainly property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	fly	to-infinitive	I not said here			from the man	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from man=Trajectory
9	choose	present · perfect	you	the man not said here		for my husband	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent man=Theme for husband=Beneficiary

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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