The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 66

After promising to come again to the Princess’s window as soon as it was dark, he flew away, and hid himself in a little hole in the fir-tree, while Fiordelisa remained devoured by anxiety lest he should be caught in a trap, or eaten up by an eagle.

Who acts: light, sun, anxiety · What happens: promise, come, be, fly away, hide, devour · To what, where: window, light, little hole, Fiordelisa, trap

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 (light, sun, anxiety), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 promising	mark
2	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 flew	advcl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 come	mark
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promising	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 window	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Princess	case
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 soon	advmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 come	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 dark	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dark	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dark	cop
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 soon	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 promising	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flew	nsubj
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 flew	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hid	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hid	cc
23	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 flew	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 hid	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 hole	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hole	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hole	amod
28	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hid	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 tree	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tree	det
31	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tree	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 fir	punct
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hole	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 devoured	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 devoured	mark
36	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 devoured	nsubj
37	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 devoured	aux:pass
38	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hid	advcl
39	by	by	ADP	_	40 anxiety	case
40	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 devoured	obl
41	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	45 caught	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 caught	nsubj:pass
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 caught	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 caught	aux:pass
45	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 devoured	advcl
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 trap	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 trap	det
48	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 caught	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 eaten	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 eaten	cc
51	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 devoured	conj
52	up	up	ADP	_	51 eaten	compound:prt
53	by	by	ADP	_	55 eagle	case
54	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 eagle	det
55	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 eaten	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	gerund	light not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	light not said here		the Princess's window	again	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
3	is	past	sun				dark property	tree rules
4	fly away	past	light				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hide	past	light not said here	light	a little hole in the fir tree			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in hole=Location
6	devour	past · passive	anxiety	Fiordelisa				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
7	catch	should · passive		light	a trap			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	eat up	participle	anxiety not said here				by a eagle	vn eat-39.1-1 «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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