The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 160

I’m thankful that none of my little children are; birds always starve in winter.’

Who acts: I, none, birds · What happens: be, starve

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, none, birds), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ’m	nsubj
2	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ’m	xcomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 are	mark
5	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 are	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 children	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 none	nmod
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thankful	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 starve	punct
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 starve	nsubj
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 starve	advmod
14	starve	starve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ’m	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 winter	case
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 starve	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ’m	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 ’m	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	I		thankful property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	none			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	starve	present	birds	winter	always property	tree rules

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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