The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 25

‘Kneel, little calf, kneel; Be faithful and leal, Not like Prince Fickle, Who once on a time Left his fair Helena Under the lime.’

Who acts: time · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: fair Helena, lime

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 (time), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Kneel	punct
2	Kneel	kneel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 calf	punct
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 calf	amod
5	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kneel	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kneel	punct
7	kneel	kneel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kneel	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 faithful	punct
9	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 faithful	cop
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Kneel	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 leal	cc
12	leal	leal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 faithful	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Fickle	punct
14	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 Fickle	advmod
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 Fickle	case
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Fickle	nmod:desc
17	Fickle	Fickle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 faithful	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 once	punct
19	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 once	nsubj
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 Fickle	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 once	obl
24	Left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 time	acl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Helena	nmod:poss
26	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Helena	amod
27	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Left	obj
28	Under	under	ADP	_	30 lime	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lime	det
30	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Left	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Kneel	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Kneel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive				like Fickle Prince; faithful property	tree rules
2	be						tree rules
3	leave	participle	a time not said here	calf's fair Helena	the lime		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent helena=Theme under lime=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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