The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 41
Prince Fickle searched for her everywhere, and longed eagerly for the next night, when the beautiful lady had promised to come again.
Who acts: Fickle · What happens: search, long, promise, come · To what, where: beautiful lady
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 (Fickle), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fickle | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Fickle | Fickle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 searched | nsubj |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 searched | obl |
| 6 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 searched | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 longed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 longed | cc |
| 9 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | parataxis |
| 10 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 9 longed | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 night | amod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 longed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 promised | punct |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 promised | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lady | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lady | amod |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 promised | aux |
| 21 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 longed | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 promised | xcomp |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | Fickle Prince | for Helena; everywhere property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | long | past | night | eagerly property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | the beautiful lady | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | again | 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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