The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 24

There was nothing to eat on the island, and the fisher’s son thought he would die of food, when he remembered the box that the lady had put in his pocket.

Who acts: nothing, son · What happens: be, eat, think, die, remember, put · To what, where: island, box, lady, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, son), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 island	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fisher	det
12	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 son	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 fisher	case
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 die	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 die	aux
18	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 food	case
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 die	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 remembered	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 remembered	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 remembered	nsubj
24	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 box	det
26	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 remembered	obj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 put	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lady	det
29	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 put	aux
31	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 remembered	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 pocket	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 pocket	nmod:poss
34	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	nothing not said here		the island		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	the fisher's son				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	die	would	son			of food	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of food=Causer
5	remember	past	son	the box			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent box=Theme
6	put	past · perfect · passive		the lady	son's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pocket=Destination

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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