The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 77

When the Prince did not return, poor Hyacinthia wept bitterly and changing herself from a milestone into a little blue field flower, she said, ‘I will grow here on the wayside till some passer-by tramples me under foot.’

Who acts: Prince, poor Hyacinthia, pursuit, I · What happens: not return, weep, change, say, grow · To what, where: pursuit, milestone, wayside · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prince, poor Hyacinthia, pursuit, I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 return	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 return	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 return	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 return	advmod
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wept	punct
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Hyacinthia	amod
9	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wept	nsubj
10	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 return	conj
11	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	10 wept	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 changing	cc
13	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 wept	conj
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 changing	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 milestone	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 milestone	det
17	milestone	milestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changing	obl
18	into	into	ADP	_	23 flower	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 flower	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flower	amod
21	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flower	amod
22	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flower	compound
23	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 return	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grow	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 grow	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 grow	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 grow	aux
31	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 grow	advmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 wayside	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wayside	det
35	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grow	obl
36	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 tramples	mark
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 tramples	det
38	passer	passer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tramples	nsubj
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 tramples	punct
40	by	by	ADP	_	41 tramples	case
41	tramples	trample	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grow	obl
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 tramples	obj
43	under	under	ADP	_	44 foot	case
44	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grow	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 return	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not return	past · do-support	the Prince				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	weep	past	poor Hyacinthia			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	change	gerund	poor Hyacinthia not said here	pursuit	a milestone	into a little blue field flower result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient from milestone=Initial_State into flower=Result
4	say speech: assert	past	pursuit				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	grow	future	I		the wayside; here	by some tramples; under foot	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wayside=Location

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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