The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 181

After this they found that they were very hungry, for one cannot live on love, any more than on air, and then the old woman’s lamentations were louder than before.

Who acts: Celandine, one, lamentations, old woman · What happens: find, be, not live, lament · To what, where: love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Celandine, one, lamentations, old woman), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 found	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 hungry	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hungry	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hungry	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 hungry	advmod
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 live	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 live	mark
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 live	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 live	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 live	advmod
15	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 love	case
17	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 live	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 more	punct
19	any	any	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 live	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 air	case
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 more	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 louder	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 louder	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 louder	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lamentations	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 woman	case
31	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 louder	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 louder	cop
33	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 found	conj
34	than	than	ADP	_	35 before	case
35	before	before	ADV	_	33 louder	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Celandine		after this		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Celandine			hungry property	tree rules
3	not live	can	one	love			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on love=Location
4	is	past	the old woman's lamentations		then	loud property	tree rules
5	lament		the old woman				nom lamentation «communication transitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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