The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 33

Helena herself had been far too moved to let her see what impression her words had made on the Prince, and when she looked round he was already far away.

Who acts: Helena, impression, Prince · What happens: be, let, see, make, look round, word · To what, where: Helena, impression, words

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, impression, Prince), 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	Helena	helena	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moved	nsubj
2	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Helena	nmod:unmarked
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 moved	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 moved	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 moved	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 moved	advmod
7	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 moved	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	13 impression	det
13	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 words	nmod:poss
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 impression	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 Prince	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Prince	det
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 made	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looked	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 looked	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looked	nsubj
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 moved	conj
26	round	round	ADP	_	31 away	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 away	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 away	cop
29	already	already	ADV	_	31 away	advmod
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 away	advmod
31	away	away	ADV	_	25 looked	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	Helena Helena		far, move property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	Helena Helena not said here	Helena		tree rules
3	see	infinitive	Helena not said here	what impression		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer impression=Stimulus
4	make	past · perfect · passive	what impression not said here	Helena's words	on the Prince	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	look round	past	Helena			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	past	Prince		away, far property	tree rules
7	word		Helena			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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