The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 77

However, he said nothing, and presently, when his hunger began to be appeased, the Fairy said:

Who acts: Prince, hunger, Fairy · What happens: say, begin, appease, hunger · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, hunger, Fairy), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
8	presently	presently	ADV	_	13 began	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 began	advmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hunger	nmod:poss
12	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 appeased	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 appeased	aux:pass
16	appeased	appease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 began	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Fairy	det
19	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Prince	nothing	however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	begin	past	Prince's hunger		presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	appease	to-infinitive · passive	Prince's hunger not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	hunger		Prince			nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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 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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