The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 16
But on the following morning he was so hungry that he burst into tears, and implored his brothers to give him a little bit of their bread.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: follow, be, burst, implore, give · To what, where: tears, brothers, little bit, Ferko
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hungry | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 morning | amod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hungry | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hungry | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hungry | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 hungry | advmod |
| 9 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 burst | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 burst | nsubj |
| 12 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hungry | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 tears | case |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 burst | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 implored | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 implored | cc |
| 17 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 burst | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 implored | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 give | mark |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 implored | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bit | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bit | amod |
| 25 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 bread | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bread | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bit | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | Ferko | morning | hungry property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | burst | past | Ferko | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | implore | past | Ferko not said here | Ferko's brothers | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | Ferko not said here | a little bit of brothers's bread | Ferko | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bit=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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