The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 16

So when, by Turritella’s orders, she was left there she began to weep and lament, and never ceased until daybreak.

Who acts: orders, Turritella · What happens: leave, begin, weep, lament, not cease, order · To what, where: Fiordelisa

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (orders, Turritella), 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	So	so	ADV	_	14 began	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 began	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 orders	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 orders	case
5	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 orders	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Turritella	case
7	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 began	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux:pass
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 orders	acl:relcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 left	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 weep	mark
16	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lament	cc
18	lament	lament	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 weep	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ceased	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ceased	cc
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 ceased	advmod
22	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
23	until	until	ADP	_	24 daybreak	case
24	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ceased	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		Fiordelisa	there		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	begin	past	Turritella's orders				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	weep	to-infinitive	Turritella's orders not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lament	infinitive	Turritella's orders not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	not cease	past	Turritella's orders not said here			until daybreak	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	order		Turritella				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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