The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 4
The Fairy appeared, promised to build the castle, and told Helena to lie down and go to sleep in the meantime.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: appear, promise, build, tell, lie down, go · To what, where: castle, Helena, meantime · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fairy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 promised | punct |
| 5 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 build | mark |
| 7 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 promised | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 build | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 13 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lie | mark |
| 15 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 lie | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 go | cc |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lie | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sleep | mark |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 meantime | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 meantime | det |
| 23 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleep | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the Fairy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the Fairy not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Fairy not said here | the castle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the Fairy not said here | Helena | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent helena=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | lie down not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Fairy not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | the Fairy not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sleep | to-infinitive | the Fairy not said here | the meantime | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=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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