The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 18

At these words poor Ferko wept more bitterly than before, and bore the torments of hunger till the sun was high in the heavens; then he could stand it no longer, and he consented to allow his left eye to be put out and his left leg to be broken.

Who acts: poor Ferko, sun, Ferko, left eye · What happens: weep, bear, be, stand, consent, allow · To what, where: words, torments, heavens, sun, left eye, hunger

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 (poor Ferko, sun, Ferko, left eye), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wept	obl
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Ferko	amod
5	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wept	nsubj
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 bitterly	advmod
8	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	6 wept	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 bitterly	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bore	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bore	cc
13	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wept	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 torments	det
15	torments	torment	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bore	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 hunger	case
17	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 torments	nmod
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 high	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 high	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 high	cop
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bore	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 heavens	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 heavens	det
25	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 high	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 stand	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 stand	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stand	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stand	aux
30	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wept	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stand	obj
32	no	no	ADV	_	33 longer	advmod
33	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 stand	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 consented	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 consented	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 consented	nsubj
37	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wept	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 allow	mark
39	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 consented	xcomp
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 eye	nmod:poss
41	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 eye	amod
42	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 allow	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	45 put	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 put	aux:pass
45	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 allow	xcomp
46	out	out	ADP	_	45 put	compound:prt
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 leg	cc
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 leg	nmod:poss
49	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 leg	amod
50	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 put	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	53 broken	mark
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 broken	aux:pass
53	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 put	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	poor Ferko		this words		bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bear	past	poor Ferko not said here	the torments of hunger				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torment=Patient
3	is	past	the sun		the heavens		high property	tree rules
4	stand	could	Ferko	sun		then	long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	consent	past	Ferko					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	allow	to-infinitive	Ferko not said here	Ferko's left eye				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer eye=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	put out not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Ferko's left eye not said here					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»
8	break	to-infinitive · passive	Ferko's left eye not said here					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»
9	torment			hunger				nom torment «state transitive»: of=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 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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