--- title: Helena kissed him tenderly at parting on his left cheek, and begged… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Helena kissed him tenderly at parting on his left cheek, and begged him not to let anyone else kiss him there while they were parted, and she promised to sit and wait for him under the lime-tree, for she never doubted that the Prince would be faithful to her and would return as quickly as he could. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Biter Bit, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/) / 14 # The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 14 Helena kissed him tenderly at parting on his left cheek, and begged him not to let anyone else kiss him there while they were parted, and she promised to sit and wait for him under the lime-tree, for she never doubted that the Prince would be faithful to her and would return as quickly as he could. **Who acts:** Helena, anyone, Prince · **What happens:** kiss, part, beg, not let, promise, sit · **To what, where:** Prince, left cheek, anyone, wooers, lime tree, Helena · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Helena, anyone, Prince), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:29:14 # text = Helena kissed him tenderly at parting on his left cheek, and begged him not to let anyone else kiss him there while they were parted, and she promised to sit and wait for him under the lime-tree, for she never doubted that the Prince would be faithful to her and would return as quickly as he could. 1 Helena Helena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 tenderly tenderly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 at at SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 parting part VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 18 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 else else ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 kiss kiss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 parted part VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 under under ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 lime lime NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 for for SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 doubted doubt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 47 that that SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 50 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 cop _ _ 52 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 advcl _ _ 53 to to ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obl _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 56 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 58 as as ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 59 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 60 as as SCONJ IN _ 62 mark _ _ 61 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 62 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 59 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kiss** | past | Helena | Prince | | | | tenderly *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 2 | **part** | gerund | Helena *not said here* | | | Prince's left cheek | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Helena *not said here* | | Prince | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | anyone | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **kiss** | infinitive | anyone *not said here* | Prince | | there | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 6 | **part** | past · passive | | wooers *= wooer* | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Helena | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **sit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Helena *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **wait** | infinitive | Helena *not said here* | | | the lime tree | | for Prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location | | 10 | **not** **doubt** | past | Helena | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **is** | would | the Prince | | Helena | | | faithful *property* | tree rules | | 12 | **return** | would | Helena *not said here* | | | | | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/15/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/)