The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 16

But when her lover never returned, she grew very unhappy, and determined to set out to look for him.

Who acts: lover, Helena · What happens: not return, grow, set out, look

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 (lover, Helena), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 grew	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 returned	advmod
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lover	nmod:poss
4	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returned	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 returned	advmod
6	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grew	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 returned	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 unhappy	advmod
11	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 determined	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 determined	cc
14	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 set	mark
16	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 determined	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 set	compound:prt
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 set	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 look	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not return	past	Helena's lover		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	Helena	unhappy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set out	to-infinitive	Helena not said here		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	look	to-infinitive	Helena not said here	for lover	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=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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