The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 98

The busy cook was just going to refuse her demand and order her out of the kitchen, but the words died on his lips when he turned and beheld the beautiful Hyacinthia, and he answered politely, ‘You have just come in the nick of time, fair maiden.

Who acts: busy cook, words, Milan, You, Princess · What happens: go, refuse, order, die, turn, behold · To what, where: demand, Princess, kitchen, lips, beautiful Hyacinthia, nick

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 (busy cook, words, Milan, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
2	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cook	amod
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 refuse	mark
8	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 demand	nmod:poss
10	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refuse	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 order	cc
12	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refuse	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 order	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 kitchen	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 kitchen	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kitchen	det
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 order	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 died	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 died	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 words	det
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 died	nsubj
22	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 turned	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 lips	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lips	nmod:poss
25	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 died	obl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 turned	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 turned	nsubj
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 beheld	cc
30	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 turned	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Hyacinthia	det
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Hyacinthia	amod
33	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 beheld	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 answered	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 answered	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 answered	nsubj
37	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 turned	conj
38	politely	politely	ADV	_	37 answered	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
41	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 come	nsubj
42	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 come	aux
43	just	just	ADV	_	44 come	advmod
44	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 answered	parataxis
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 nick	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 nick	det
47	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 time	case
49	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 nick	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 maiden	punct
51	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 maiden	amod
52	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 nick	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the busy cook					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	refuse	to-infinitive	the busy cook not said here	Princess's demand				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=Theme
3	order	infinitive	the busy cook not said here		Princess	the kitchen		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	die	past	the words			Milan's lips		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	turn	past	Milan					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	behold	past	Milan not said here	the beautiful Hyacinthia				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hyacinthia=Stimulus
7	answer speech: assert	past	Milan				politely property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	come	present · perfect	You			the nick of time and fair maiden		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nick=Location
9	demand		Princess					nom demand «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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