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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

advmodnsubjdetobjcasenmoddet:predetdetobl:unmarkedpunctccadvmodnsubjadvclnmod:possobjconjobjpunctccnsubjconjnmod:possamodobjaux:passxcompcompound:prtccnmod:possamodobjaclcasedetamodoblcasenmodpunctrootSoADVhePRONenduredVERBtheDETpangsNOUNofADPstarvationNOUNallDETthatDETdayNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJwhenADVnightNOUNcameVERBhisPRONenduranceNOUNgaveVERBwayNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONletVERBhisPRONrightADJeyeNOUNbeAUXputVERBoutADPandCCONJhisPRONrightADJlegNOUNbrokenVERBforADPaDETsecondADJpieceNOUNofADPbreadNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 enduredadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 endurednsubj
3enduredendureVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 pangsdet
5pangspangNOUNNumber=Plur3 enduredobj
6ofofADP_7 starvationcase
7starvationstarvationNOUNNumber=Sing5 pangsnmod
8allallDETPronType=Tot10 daydet:predet
9thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem10 daydet
10daydayNOUNNumber=Sing3 enduredobl:unmarked
11,,PUNCT_18 gavepunct
12butbutCCONJ_18 gavecc
13whenwhenADVPronType=Int15 cameadvmod
14nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing15 camensubj
15camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 gaveadvcl
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 endurancenmod:poss
17enduranceenduranceNOUNNumber=Sing15 cameobj
18gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 enduredconj
19waywayNOUNNumber=Sing18 gaveobj
20,,PUNCT_23 letpunct
21andandCCONJ_23 letcc
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 letnsubj
23letletVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 enduredconj
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 eyenmod:poss
25rightrightADJDegree=Pos26 eyeamod
26eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing23 letobj
27bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf28 putaux:pass
28putputVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass23 letxcomp
29outoutADP_28 putcompound:prt
30andandCCONJ_23 letcc
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 legnmod:poss
32rightrightADJDegree=Pos33 legamod
33leglegNOUNNumber=Sing23 letobj
34brokenbreakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass33 legacl
35forforADP_38 piececase
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 piecedet
37secondsecondADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord38 pieceamod
38piecepieceNOUNNumber=Sing34 brokenobl
39ofofADP_40 breadcase
40breadbreadNOUNNumber=Sing38 piecenmod
41..PUNCT_3 enduredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1endurepastFerkothe pangs of starvationdayvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pang=Circumstance
2comepastnightFerko's endurancevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location endurance=Theme
3givepastFerko not said herewayvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4letpastFerkoFerko's right eyetree rules
5put outinfinitive · passiveFerko's right eye not said herevn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»
6breakparticipleFerko's right leg not said herefor a second piece of breadvn 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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