The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 118

The days were so long, and the nights so dull, but for a whole month she never went near her little window lest he should fly to her as he used to do.

Who acts: days, nights, Fiordelisa, window · What happens: be, not go, fly, use, do · To what, where: little window, Fiordelisa

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, nights, Fiordelisa, window), 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	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 long	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dull	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dull	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nights	det
9	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dull	nsubj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 dull	advmod
11	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 long	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 month	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 month	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 month	amod
17	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 went	advmod
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	conj
21	near	near	ADP	_	24 window	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 window	nmod:poss
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 window	amod
24	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	28 fly	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fly	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fly	aux
28	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 went	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fly	obl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 used	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 used	nsubj
33	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fly	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 do	mark
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 used	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the days				long property	tree rules
2	be		the nights					tree rules
3	not go	past	Fiordelisa		Fiordelisa's little window	month		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near window=Location
4	fly	should	window	Fiordelisa				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result
5	use	past	window					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	do	to-infinitive	window not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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