The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 71

And the Princess promised on condition that he should come and see her in the day as well as by night.

Who acts: Princess, light · What happens: promise, come, see · To what, where: condition, Princess

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 (Princess, light), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 promised	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 condition	case
6	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 see	cc
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obl
17	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	21 night	cc
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 as	fixed
19	as	as	ADP	_	17 as	fixed
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 night	case
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the Princess		condition		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	should	light				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	light not said here	Princess		day; night	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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