The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 143

This had gone on so long that now there were no men left, and he had been obliged to send his own daughter instead, and the poor girl was waiting till the monster got hungry and felt inclined to eat her.

Who acts: This, men, poor girl, monster · What happens: go, be, leave, oblige, send, wait · To what, where: long, men, man, own daughter, girl

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, men, poor girl, monster), 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	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 long	case
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gone	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 were	mark
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 were	advmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 men	det
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 were	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 men	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 obliged	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 obliged	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 obliged	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 obliged	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 obliged	aux:pass
19	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gone	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 send	mark
21	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 obliged	xcomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 daughter	amod
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 send	obj
25	instead	instead	ADV	_	21 send	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 waiting	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 waiting	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 girl	det
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 girl	amod
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 waiting	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 waiting	aux
32	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 obliged	advcl
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 got	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 monster	det
35	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 got	nsubj
36	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 waiting	advcl
37	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 got	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 felt	cc
39	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 got	conj
40	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 felt	xcomp
41	to	to	PART	_	42 eat	mark
42	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 inclined	xcomp
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 eat	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	This		long			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on long=Location
2	be	past	no men		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	participle		no men not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	oblige	past · perfect · passive		man				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	send	to-infinitive		man's own daughter			instead property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
6	wait	past · progressive	the poor girl					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get	past	the monster				hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	feel	past	the monster not said here				inclined property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
9	eat	to-infinitive	the monster not said here	girl				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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