The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 44
She sought it for nine days, and then her hunger became so great that she did not know how she could live any longer.
Who acts: princess, hunger · What happens: seek, become, not know, live, hunger · To what, where: bye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, hunger), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 became | advmod |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sought | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 great | advmod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 great | advcl |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 live | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 live | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 live | aux |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 know | ccomp |
| 24 | any | any | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 live | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | princess | bye | day | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | princess's hunger | then | great property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | live | could | princess | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hunger | princess | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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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