The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 19

When this was done he stretched out his hand eagerly for the piece of bread, but his brothers gave him such a tiny scrap that the starving youth finished it in a moment and besought them for a second bit.

Who acts: Ferko, brothers, starving youth · What happens: do, stretch out, give, starve, finish, beseech · To what, where: this, hand, tiny scrap, Ferko, scrap, brothers

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, brothers, starving youth), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stretched	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stretched	nsubj
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 stretched	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretched	obj
10	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	6 stretched	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 piece	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 piece	det
13	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretched	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 bread	case
15	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piece	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 gave	cc
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	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stretched	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	iobj
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 scrap	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 scrap	det
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 scrap	amod
25	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 finished	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 youth	det
28	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 youth	amod
29	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 finished	nsubj
30	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gave	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 finished	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 moment	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 moment	det
34	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 finished	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 besought	cc
36	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 finished	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 besought	obj
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 bit	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 bit	det
40	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	41 bit	amod
41	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 besought	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	stretch out	past	Ferko	Ferko's hand			for the piece of bread; eagerly property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	give	past	Ferko's brothers	such tiny scrap	Ferko			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient scrap=Theme
4	starve	gerund						tree rules
5	finish	past	the starving youth	scrap		moment		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
6	beseech	past	the starving youth not said here	brothers = brother			for a second bit	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 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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