The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 81

“Alas! the fruit is not ripe enough yet for you to eat,” answered the fox, who hoped that the tortoise would die of hunger long before the seven years were over.

Who acts: fruit, you, fox, tortoise, seven years · What happens: not be, eat, answer, hope, die, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fruit, you, fox, tortoise), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 ripe	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	8 ripe	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fruit	det
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ripe	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ripe	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 ripe	advmod
8	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 answered	ccomp
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 ripe	advmod
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 ripe	advmod
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 eat	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ripe	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ripe	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 ripe	punct
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fox	det
19	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hoped	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hoped	nsubj
22	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fox	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 die	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tortoise	det
25	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 die	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 die	aux
27	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hoped	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 hunger	case
29	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 die	obl
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 die	advmod
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 over	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 years	det
33	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 years	nummod
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 over	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 over	cop
36	over	over	ADV	_	27 die	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	the fruit	yet	enough, ripe property	tree rules
2	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	you			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: express	past	the fox			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hope	past	the fox			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	die	would	the tortoise		of hunger; long property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
6	is	past	the seven years		over property	tree rules

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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