The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 120

The husband walked on and on and on without ever seeing one, and every now and then he felt so hungry that he was obliged to eat one of the crusts of bread out of his bag.

Who acts: husband · What happens: walk, see, feel, oblige, eat · To what, where: one, husband, bag

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 on	cc
6	on	on	ADV	_	4 on	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 on	cc
8	on	on	ADV	_	6 on	conj
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 seeing	mark
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 seeing	advmod
11	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 walked	advcl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 seeing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 felt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 felt	cc
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 felt	det
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 felt	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 felt	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 felt	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 hungry	advmod
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 felt	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 obliged	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 obliged	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 obliged	aux:pass
26	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 felt	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 obliged	xcomp
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 eat	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 crusts	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 crusts	det
32	crusts	crust	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 bread	case
34	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crusts	nmod
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 bag	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 bag	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 bag	nmod:poss
38	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the husband					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	gerund	the husband not said here	one		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	feel	past	husband			now; then	hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	oblige	past · passive		husband				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	eat	to-infinitive		one of the crusts of bread	husband's bag			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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