The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 56

Peronnik was a poor idiot who belonged to nobody, and he would have died of starvation if it had not been for the kindness of the village people, who gave him food whenever he chose to ask for it.

Who acts: poor idiot, Peronnik, starvation, village people · What happens: belong, die, not be, give, choose, ask · To what, where: food, Peronnik

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor idiot, Peronnik, starvation, village people), 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	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 idiot	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 idiot	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 idiot	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 idiot	amod
5	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 belonged	nsubj
7	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 idiot	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 nobody	case
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 belonged	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 died	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 died	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 died	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 died	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 died	aux
15	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 idiot	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 starvation	case
17	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 died	obl
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 kindness	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kindness	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 kindness	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 kindness	advmod
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 kindness	cop
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 kindness	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kindness	det
25	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 died	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 people	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
28	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 people	compound
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kindness	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 gave	nsubj
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 people	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	iobj
34	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obj
35	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 chose	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 chose	nsubj
37	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gave	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 ask	mark
39	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 chose	xcomp
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ask	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 idiot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	belong	past	a poor idiot			to nobody	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	die	would · perfect	Peronnik			of starvation	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer
3	not is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	starvation			for the kindness; of the village people	tree rules
4	give	past	the village people	food	Peronnik		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme
5	choose	past	Peronnik			whenever property	tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Peronnik not said here			for starvation	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 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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