The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 18

I could not eat any food,” he answered every time, and at each answer his voice grew fainter and fainter, till they thought he would die from weakness before their eyes.

Who acts: I, husband, voice, corner · What happens: not eat, answer, grow, think, die · To what, where: food, answer, weakness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, husband, voice, corner), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	parataxis
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 answer	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 answer	det
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	obl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 voice	nmod:poss
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	parataxis
21	fainter	faint	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 grew	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fainter	cc
23	fainter	faint	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 fainter	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 thought	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grew	conj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 die	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 die	aux
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thought	ccomp
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 weakness	case
32	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 die	obl
33	before	before	ADP	_	35 eyes	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eyes	nmod:poss
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 die	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	could	I	any food				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	husband			time		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow in a quote	past	husband's voice		each answer		faint property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at answer=Location
4	think speech: other in a quote	past	corner					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	die in a quote	would	husband		weakness	before corner's eyes		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from weakness=Causer

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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