The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 101

The little girl did not like being left alone in the hut, and cried bitterly; but her brother told her that there was no use sitting down quietly to starve, and that whether he found any game or not he would certainly be back before the following night.

Who acts: little girl, brother, use · What happens: not like, leave, cry, tell, be, sit down · To what, where: hut, girl, game · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girl, brother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 like	xcomp
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hut	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hut	det
12	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	parataxis
16	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	15 cried	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brother	nmod:poss
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 was	mark
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	ccomp
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 use	det
27	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
28	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 use	acl
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 sitting	advmod
30	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	28 sitting	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 starve	mark
32	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sitting	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 found	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 found	cc
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 found	mark
36	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	38 found	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 found	nsubj
38	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	conj
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 game	det
40	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 found	obj
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 back	cc
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 back	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 back	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 back	aux
45	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	47 back	advmod
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 back	cop
47	back	back	ADV	_	38 found	conj
48	before	before	ADP	_	51 night	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 night	det
50	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 night	amod
51	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 back	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the little girl						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave not said to happen	gerund · passive	the little girl not said here					in the hut result; alone property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: in hut=Result
3	cry speech: express	past						bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	girl's brother		girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	be	past	no use			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sit down	gerund	no use not said here					down, quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	starve	to-infinitive	no use not said here						tree rules
8	find	past	use	any game					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Topic
9	not is	would	use				night	back, certainly property	tree rules
10	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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