The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 24

She taught it to kneel before her, and then she whispered in its ear:

Who acts: Helena · What happens: teach, kneel, whisper · To what, where: pet, ear

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	2 taught	nsubj
2	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 taught	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 kneel	mark
5	kneel	kneel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 taught	xcomp
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kneel	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whispered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 whispered	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 whispered	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 whispered	nsubj
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 taught	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 ear	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ear	nmod:poss
15	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whispered	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	Helena	pet			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
2	kneel	to-infinitive	Helena not said here			before Helena	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
3	whisper speech: assert	past	Helena		pet's ear	then	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location

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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