The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 42
The following evening the fair Helena started early for the feast.
Who acts: fair Helena · What happens: follow, start
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 (fair 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Helena | det |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Helena | amod |
| 6 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 started | nsubj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 started | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 feast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | start | past | the fair Helena | evening | for the feast; early property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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