The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 158

‘I little thought it would come to this, that I should die of hunger.’

Who acts: I, death · What happens: think, come, die · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, death), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
3	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 thought	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 die	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 die	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 die	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 die	aux
14	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 hunger	case
16	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 die	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I		little property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	would	death	this		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to this=Initial_Location
3	die	should	I		of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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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