The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 36

“I am dying of hunger, as you see, and three days have I been here and no one has given me anything.”

Who acts: woman, you, three days · What happens: die, see, have, be, give · To what, where: one, woman

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, you, three days), 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	_	4 dying	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dying	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dying	aux
4	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 hunger	case
6	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 see	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dying	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 days	nummod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 here	advcl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 here	cop
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 see	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 given	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 given	nsubj:pass
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 see	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 given	iobj
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 given	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	present · progressive	woman			of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
2	see in a quote	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	have in a quote	present	three days				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	participle				here property	tree rules
5	give in a quote	present · perfect · passive		no one	woman		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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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