The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 73
The first day passed, and then the second, and at last the third also, but Prince Milan did not return, for he had not taken Hyacinthia’s advice.
Who acts: first day, Prince Milan, Milan · What happens: pass, not return, not take · To what, where: advice
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first day, Prince Milan, Milan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 second | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 second | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 second | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 second | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 passed | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 third | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 third | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 third | amod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 third | det |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 third | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 return | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 return | cc |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Milan | compound |
| 20 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 return | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 return | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 return | advmod |
| 23 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 taken | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 taken | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 taken | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 taken | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 taken | advmod |
| 29 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 return | advcl |
| 30 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 advice | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Hyacinthia | case |
| 32 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taken | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the first day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not return | past · do-support | Prince Milan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not take | past · perfect | Milan | Hyacinthia's advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
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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