The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 27
This gave them new life, for the poor people were almost famished.
Who acts: This · What happens: give, famish · To what, where: new life, crowns, poor people
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 life | amod |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 famished | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 famished | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 famished | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 famished | aux:pass |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 famished | advmod |
| 13 | famished | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | This | new life | crowns = crown | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient life=Theme | |||
| 2 | famish | past · passive | the poor people | almost property | 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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