The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 86

It lasted so long that food began to fail, and even in the palace there was not enough to eat.

Who acts: war, food, palace · What happens: last, begin, fail, not be, eat

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, food, palace), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lasted	nsubj
2	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lasted	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 began	mark
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fail	mark
9	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 enough	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 enough	cc
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 palace	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 enough	nsubj
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 enough	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 enough	advmod
19	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lasted	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 enough	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	last	past	war	long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	food		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fail	to-infinitive	food not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	the palace	enough property	tree rules
5	eat	to-infinitive	the palace not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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