The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 29

When she saw that he was not eating at all, she asked him what he wanted yet, to which he replied that he would neither eat nor drink until he knew who she was, or where she came from, or who had put her there.

Who acts: window, Englishman · What happens: see, not eat, ask, want, reply, eat · To what, where: all, Englishman, window · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (window, Englishman), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 eating	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eating	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eating	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 eating	advmod
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 eating	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 asked	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 wanted	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 replied	punct
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 replied	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 replied	nsubj
23	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 eat	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	aux
27	neither	neither	ADV	_	28 eat	advmod
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 replied	ccomp
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 drink	cc
30	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 eat	conj
31	until	until	SCONJ	_	33 knew	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 knew	nsubj
33	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 drink	ccomp
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 knew	obj
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 was	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 who	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 came	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 came	cc
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 came	advmod
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 came	nsubj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	parataxis
42	from	from	ADP	_	41 came	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 put	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 put	cc
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 put	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 put	aux
47	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 came	conj
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 put	obj
49	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 put	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	window					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not eat	past · progressive	Englishman		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	window	Englishman				tree rules
4	want	past	Englishman			yet		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	reply speech: assert	past	Englishman					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to which=Recipient clause=Topic
6	eat	would	Englishman				neither property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	drink	infinitive	Englishman not said here					tree rules
8	know	past	Englishman					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus
9	come	past	window					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	put	past · perfect		window	there			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

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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