The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 13

He promised faithfully to come back to her as soon as he could and begged her to await his return under the lime-tree where they had spent so many happy hours.

Who acts: Prince, wooers · What happens: promise, come back, beg, await, spend, return · To what, where: Helena, return, lime tree

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, wooers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	2 promised	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 soon	advmod
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 come	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 could	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 could	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 soon	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 begged	cc
15	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 begged	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 await	mark
18	await	await	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 begged	xcomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 return	nmod:poss
20	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 await	obj
21	under	under	ADP	_	25 tree	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
23	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tree	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 lime	punct
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 await	obl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 spent	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spent	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 spent	aux
29	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 tree	acl:relcl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 many	advmod
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hours	amod
32	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hours	amod
33	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 spent	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Prince					faithfully property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come back not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		Helena			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
3	beg speech: request	past	Prince not said here		Helena				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	await not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	Prince's return		the lime tree			tree rules
5	spend	past · perfect	wooers = wooer				hour		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	return		Prince						nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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