The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 40
He never left her side all night, and it was with great difficulty that Helena escaped from him in the crowd when it was time to return home.
Who acts: Prince, side, Helena · What happens: not leave, be, escape, return · To what, where: side, crowd, time
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 (Prince, side, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 left | advmod |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 side | nmod:poss |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 difficulty | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 difficulty | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 difficulty | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 difficulty | cop |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 difficulty | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 difficulty | amod |
| 14 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 escaped | mark |
| 16 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 escaped | nsubj |
| 17 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 difficulty | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 escaped | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 crowd | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 crowd | det |
| 22 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 escaped | obl |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 time | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 time | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 time | cop |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crowd | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 return | mark |
| 28 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 time | acl |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 return | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past | Prince | Fickle's side | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | side | with great difficulty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | escape | past | Helena | the crowd | from Prince | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is a | past | side | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | return | to-infinitive | Helena not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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