The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 23

Poor Ferko ate up the scrap of bread they had left him and wept bitterly, but no one heard him or came to his help.

Who acts: Poor Ferko, brothers, one, Ferko · What happens: eat up, leave, weep, hear, come, help · To what, where: scrap, Ferko, help

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, brothers, one, Ferko), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Ferko	amod
2	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 ate	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scrap	det
6	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bread	case
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scrap	nmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 bread	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wept	cc
14	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
15	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	14 wept	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	obj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 help	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 help	nmod:poss
26	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat up	past	Poor Ferko	the scrap of bread			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrap=Patient
2	leave	past · perfect	brothers = brother	Ferko			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	weep	past	Poor Ferko not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	no one	Ferko			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	come	past	no one not said here		Ferko's help		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location
6	help		Ferko				nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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