The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 21
So he endured the pangs of starvation all that day, but when night came his endurance gave way, and he let his right eye be put out and his right leg broken for a second piece of bread.
Who acts: Ferko, night, right eye · What happens: endure, come, give, let, put out, break · To what, where: pangs, endurance, way, right eye, right leg
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, night, right 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 endured | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 endured | nsubj |
| 3 | endured | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pangs | det |
| 5 | pangs | pang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 endured | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 starvation | case |
| 7 | starvation | starvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pangs | nmod |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det:predet |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 endured | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 came | advmod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gave | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 endurance | nmod:poss |
| 17 | endurance | endurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 endured | conj |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 let | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 let | nsubj |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 endured | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eye | nmod:poss |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eye | amod |
| 26 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 let | obj |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 put | aux:pass |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 let | xcomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 put | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 let | cc |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 leg | nmod:poss |
| 32 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 leg | amod |
| 33 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 let | obj |
| 34 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 leg | acl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 piece | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 piece | det |
| 37 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 piece | amod |
| 38 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 broken | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 bread | case |
| 40 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 piece | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 endured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endure | past | Ferko | the pangs of starvation | day | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pang=Circumstance | |||
| 2 | come | past | night | Ferko's endurance | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location endurance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Ferko not said here | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | past | Ferko | Ferko's right eye | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put out | infinitive · passive | Ferko's right eye not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | |||||
| 6 | break | participle | Ferko's right leg not said here | for a second piece of bread | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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