The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 21

But at length there came a day when, in spite of their prudence, they seemed likely to die of starvation, for no more food was to be had.

Who acts: length, lives · What happens: come, seem, die, have, spite · To what, where: spite, more food, prudence

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, lives), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 length	case
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 length	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spite	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 spite	case
11	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 prudence	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 prudence	nmod:poss
14	prudence	prudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spite	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
18	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seemed	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 die	mark
20	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 likely	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 starvation	case
22	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 die	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
25	no	no	ADV	_	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 food	amod
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
29	to	to	PART	_	31 had	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	aux:pass
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 seemed	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	length		spite of lives's prudence	day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location
2	seem	past	lives = life				likely property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	die	to-infinitive	lives = life not said here				of starvation	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer
4	have	past · passive	lives = life not said here	more food				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: food=Patient
5	spite			lives's prudence				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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