The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 20

She could not bear to return to her own castle where she had been so happy with her lover, but determined rather to endure her loneliness and desolation in a strange land.

Who acts: Helena · What happens: not bear, return, be, determine, endure · To what, where: loneliness, strange land

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), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bear	advmod
4	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 return	mark
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bear	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 castle	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 castle	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 castle	amod
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 happy	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 happy	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happy	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 happy	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 happy	advmod
16	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 castle	amod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 lover	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lover	nmod:poss
19	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 happy	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 determined	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 determined	cc
22	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	conj
23	rather	rather	ADV	_	25 endure	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 endure	mark
25	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 determined	xcomp
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 loneliness	nmod:poss
27	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 endure	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 desolation	cc
29	desolation	desolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 loneliness	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 land	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 land	det
32	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 land	amod
33	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 endure	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bear	could	Helena				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	return	to-infinitive	Helena not said here			to Helena's own castle result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
3	is	past · perfect	Helena			with Helena's lover; happy property	tree rules
4	determine	past	Helena not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	endure	to-infinitive	Helena not said here	Helena's loneliness and desolation	a strange land		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme loneliness=Circumstance

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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