The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 93

At length his eyes fell on the apple, which all this while he had been holding in his hand, and in his thirst he forgot what the hermit had told him, and instead of eating merely his own half, he ate up the old woman’s also; after that he went to sleep.

Who acts: eyes, apple, hermit · What happens: fall, hold, forget, tell, eat, eat up · To what, where: length, hand, thirst, hermit, tongue, own half · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, apple, hermit), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 apple	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 apple	det
8	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 holding	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 holding	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 this	det:predet
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 which	nmod
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 holding	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 holding	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 holding	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 holding	aux
17	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 apple	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 holding	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 forgot	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 forgot	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 thirst	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 thirst	nmod:poss
25	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 forgot	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 forgot	nsubj
27	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 forgot	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hermit	det
30	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 told	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 told	aux
32	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 what	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 eating	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 eating	cc
36	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 eating	mark
37	of	of	ADP	_	36 instead	fixed
38	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 forgot	advcl
39	merely	merely	ADV	_	42 half	advmod
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 half	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 half	amod
42	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	38 eating	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ate	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 ate	nsubj
45	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 ate	compound:prt
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 woman	det
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 woman	amod
49	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 ’s	nsubj
50	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 ate	conj
51	also	also	ADV	_	50 ’s	advmod
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 went	punct
53	after	after	SCONJ	_	56 went	mark
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 went	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 went	nsubj
56	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 ate	conj
57	to	to	ADP	_	58 sleep	case
58	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 went	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	hermit's eyes			length	on the apple	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	hold	past · perfect · progressive	the apple			hermit's hand		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
3	forget	past	hermit			hermit's thirst		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the hermit	tongue			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
5	eat	gerund	hermit not said here	hermit's own half				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient
6	eat up	past	hermit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go	past	hermit			sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
8	thirst		hermit					nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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 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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