The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 71

Seeing she could get nothing more out of him, she gave him a little bread and water, and showing him to a small dark cupboard she told him he might sleep there.

Who acts: Fairy, Prince · What happens: see, get, give, show, tell, sleep · To what, where: nothing, little bread, Prince, small dark cupboard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Prince), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 gave	advcl
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Seeing	ccomp
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 get	obj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 nothing	amod
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 him	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 more	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bread	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bread	amod
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 water	cc
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bread	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 showing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 showing	cc
21	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 gave	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 showing	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 cupboard	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cupboard	det
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cupboard	amod
26	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cupboard	amod
27	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 showing	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cupboard	acl:relcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sleep	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sleep	aux
33	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 told	ccomp
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 sleep	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	gerund	Fairy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	get	could	Fairy	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	give	past	Fairy	a little bread and water	Prince		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme
4	show	gerund	Fairy not said here	Prince	a small dark cupboard		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to cupboard=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	past	Fairy	a small dark cupboard not said here	Prince		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	sleep	might	Prince			there	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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