The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 43

In former times he had been very fond of his little son; but since he had betrayed his wife he seemed to have changed all in a moment, for he would not give him as much as a bite, and the poor little fellow would have starved had he not found some nuts and berries to eat, and he waited on, always hoping that his mother would come back.

Who acts: Tanuki, poor little fellow, nuts, mother · What happens: be, betray, seem, change, not give, starve · To what, where: wife, much, fox, poor little fellow, nuts

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 (Tanuki, poor little fellow, nuts, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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