The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 24

The poor prisoner had only a little straw for his bed, and but for a little stream of water which flowed through the tower he would have died of thirst.

Who acts: poor prisoner, little stream, prisoner · What happens: have, flow, die · To what, where: little straw, tower

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor prisoner, little stream, prisoner), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prisoner	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prisoner	amod
3	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 straw	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 straw	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 straw	amod
8	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bed	nmod:poss
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 straw	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stream	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stream	cc
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 stream	cc
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 stream	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stream	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stream	amod
18	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 water	case
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stream	nmod
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 flowed	nsubj
22	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stream	acl:relcl
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 tower	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tower	det
25	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flowed	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 died	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 died	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 died	aux
29	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 tower	acl:relcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 thirst	case
31	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 died	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the poor prisoner	a little straw		for prisoner's bed	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=Patient
2	flow	past	a little stream of water		the tower		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tower=Location
3	die	would · perfect	prisoner	the tower not said here		of thirst	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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