The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 8

They sat for two days and two nights in the corn, and grew so hungry that they nearly died; but if they were to venture out, it was certain death.

Who acts: others, corn · What happens: sit, grow, die, venture out, be · To what, where: corn, certain death

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, corn), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nights	cc
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 nights	nummod
8	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 days	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 corn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corn	det
11	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grew	cc
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 hungry	advmod
16	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grew	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 died	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 died	nsubj
19	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	20 died	advmod
20	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hungry	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 death	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 death	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 venture	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 venture	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 venture	aux
26	to	to	PART	_	27 venture	mark
27	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 death	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 venture	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 venture	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 death	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 death	cop
32	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 death	amod
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	others = other		the corn	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corn=Location
2	grow	past	others = other not said here				hungry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	others = other				nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	venture out a condition, not said to happen	past	others = other					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	corn	certain death				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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