The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 109

Jack was as hungry as they were, but he knew that it was no use asking for anything; and he threw himself under another tree, and wept bitterly.

Who acts: Jack, bags, work, use · What happens: be, know, ask, throw, weep · To what, where: use, Jack, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, bags, work, use), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 hungry	advmod
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 were	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 were	nsubj
7	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 knew	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 use	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 use	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 use	det
16	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knew	ccomp
17	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 use	acl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 anything	case
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 asking	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 threw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 threw	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	nsubj
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	parataxis
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 threw	obj
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 tree	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 threw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wept	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wept	cc
30	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 threw	conj
31	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	30 wept	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jack			hungry property	tree rules
2	be	past	bags = bag				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	Jack				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	work	no use			tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	gerund	no use not said here			for anything	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	throw	past	Jack	Jack	another tree		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme under tree=Destination
7	weep	past	Jack not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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