The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 14

‘I am dying for want of food and drink.’

Who acts: I · What happens: die, want · To what, where: food

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 dying	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dying	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dying	aux
4	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 want	case
6	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dying	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drink	cc
10	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present · progressive	I					for want of food and drink	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for want=Theme
2	want			food and drink					nom want «state transitive»: of=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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