The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 20

But the more Ferko wept and told his brothers that he was dying of hunger, the more they laughed and scolded him for his greed.

Who acts: more Ferko, Ferko, brothers · What happens: weep, tell, die, laugh, scold · To what, where: brothers, Ferko · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (more Ferko, Ferko, brothers), 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	_	5 wept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Ferko	det
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 Ferko	amod
4	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wept	nsubj
5	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wept	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brothers	nmod:poss
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 dying	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dying	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dying	aux
13	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 hunger	case
15	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laughed	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 more	det
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 laughed	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 laughed	nsubj
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wept	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 scolded	cc
22	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 laughed	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 scolded	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 greed	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 greed	nmod:poss
26	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 scolded	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the more Ferko				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the more Ferko not said here		Ferko's brothers		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	die	past · progressive	Ferko			of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
4	laugh	past	brothers = brother				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	scold	past	brothers = brother not said here	Ferko		for Ferko's greed	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for greed=Attribute

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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