The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 31
‘Kneel, little calf, kneel; Be faithful and leal, Not like Prince Fickle, Who once on a time Left his poor Helena Under the lime.’
Who acts: time · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: poor 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 | poor | poor | 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 | to whom | where | when | 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 | Prince's poor 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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