The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 34

‘Nothing remains for us but to die of hunger.’

Who acts: Nothing · What happens: remain, die

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing), 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	_	3 remains	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 remains	nsubj
3	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 remains	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 die	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 die	mark
8	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remains	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 hunger	case
10	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 die	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remains	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 remains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	Nothing					for us	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here					of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=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 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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