The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 14

Helena kissed him tenderly at parting on his left cheek, and begged him not to let anyone else kiss him there while they were parted, and she promised to sit and wait for him under the lime-tree, for she never doubted that the Prince would be faithful to her and would return as quickly as he could.

Who acts: Helena, anyone, Prince · What happens: kiss, part, beg, not let, promise, sit · To what, where: Prince, left cheek, anyone, wooers, lime tree, Helena · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Helena, anyone, Prince), 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	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	obj
4	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kissed	xcomp
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 parting	mark
6	parting	part	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kissed	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 cheek	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cheek	nmod:poss
9	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cheek	amod
10	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kissed	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begged	obj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 let	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 let	mark
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	ccomp
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 let	obj
19	else	else	ADV	_	18 anyone	advmod
20	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kiss	obj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 kiss	advmod
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 parted	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 parted	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 parted	aux:pass
26	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 kiss	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 promised	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 promised	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 promised	nsubj
30	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kissed	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sit	mark
32	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 promised	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wait	cc
34	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sit	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wait	obl
37	under	under	ADP	_	41 tree	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tree	det
39	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tree	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 lime	punct
41	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wait	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 doubted	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 doubted	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 doubted	nsubj
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	46 doubted	advmod
46	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 wait	advcl
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 faithful	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Prince	det
49	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 faithful	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 faithful	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 faithful	cop
52	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 doubted	advcl
53	to	to	ADP	_	54 her	case
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 faithful	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 return	cc
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 return	aux
57	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sit	conj
58	as	as	ADV	_	59 quickly	advmod
59	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	57 return	advmod
60	as	as	SCONJ	_	62 could	mark
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 could	nsubj
62	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 quickly	advcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	Helena	Prince			tenderly property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	part	gerund	Helena not said here			Prince's left cheek		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	beg speech: request	past	Helena not said here		Prince			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not let not said to happen	to-infinitive		anyone				tree rules
5	kiss	infinitive	anyone not said here	Prince		there		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
6	part	past · passive		wooers = wooer				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	promise speech: promise	past	Helena					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	Helena not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	wait	infinitive	Helena not said here			the lime tree	for Prince	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location
10	not doubt	past	Helena					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	is	would	the Prince		Helena		faithful property	tree rules
12	return	would	Helena not said here				quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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