The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 47

Then he implored her to return again next evening, and this she promised him she would.

Who acts: Prince, this · What happens: implore, return, promise · To what, where: Fickle, Prince

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, this), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 implored	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 implored	nsubj
3	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 implored	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 return	mark
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 implored	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 return	advmod
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 evening	amod
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 promised	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 promised	cc
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 promised	nsubj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 promised	nsubj
14	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 implored	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 promised	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 would	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 promised	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	implore	past	Prince	Fickle		then	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	return	to-infinitive	Prince not said here			again; evening	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past	this		Prince		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=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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