The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 48

On the third evening Prince Fickle was so impatient to see his fair enchantress again, that he arrived at the feast hours before it began, and never took his eyes from the door.

Who acts: Prince, enchantress · What happens: be, see, arrive, begin, not take · To what, where: fair enchantress, eyes, door

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, enchantress), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evening	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 evening	amod
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 impatient	obl
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 evening	appos
6	Fickle	Fickle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Prince	flat
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 impatient	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 impatient	advmod
9	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 impatient	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 enchantress	nmod:poss
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 enchantress	amod
14	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
15	again	again	ADV	_	11 see	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 arrived	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 arrived	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 arrived	nsubj
19	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 see	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 hours	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hours	det
22	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hours	compound
23	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 arrived	obl
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 began	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 arrived	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 took	cc
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 took	advmod
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 began	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eyes	nmod:poss
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 took	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 door	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 impatient	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				evening	impatient property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		Prince's fair enchantress		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantress=Stimulus
3	arrive	past	Prince			hour		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	enchantress					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	not take	past	enchantress not said here	Prince's eyes	the door			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from door=Initial_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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