The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 57

At night he slept in the woods, and at first he lived upon wild fruits; but the Fairy, who was keeping a benevolent eye upon him, thought that it would never do to let him be half-starved in that way, so she took to feeding him with all sorts of good things while he was asleep, and the Prince wondered very much that when he was awake he never felt hungry!

Who acts: Japan, Fairy, eye, half, Prince · What happens: sleep, live, keep, think, not do, let · To what, where: woods, benevolent eye, Japan, half, way, good things

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Japan, Fairy, eye, half), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slept	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lived	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 first	case
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 lived	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	conj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 fruits	case
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fruits	amod
16	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lived	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 thought	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Fairy	det
20	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 thought	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 keeping	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 keeping	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 keeping	aux
24	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 Fairy	acl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 eye	det
26	benevolent	benevolent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eye	amod
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keeping	obj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 keeping	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Fairy	punct
31	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 do	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 do	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 do	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 do	advmod
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 thought	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 let	mark
38	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 do	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 let	obj
40	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 let	xcomp
41	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	40 be	nsubj
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 half	punct
43	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 half	acl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 way	case
45	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 way	det
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 starved	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 took	punct
48	so	so	ADV	_	50 took	advmod
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 took	nsubj
50	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 thought	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 feeding	mark
52	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 took	advcl
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 feeding	iobj
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 sorts	case
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 sorts	det
56	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 feeding	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 things	case
58	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 things	amod
59	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 sorts	nmod
60	while	while	SCONJ	_	63 asleep	mark
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 asleep	nsubj
62	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 asleep	cop
63	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 feeding	advcl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 wondered	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 wondered	cc
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 Prince	det
67	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 wondered	nsubj
68	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 took	conj
69	very	very	ADV	_	70 much	advmod
70	much	much	ADV	_	68 wondered	advmod
71	that	that	SCONJ	_	75 awake	mark
72	when	when	SCONJ	_	75 awake	mark
73	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 awake	nsubj
74	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 awake	cop
75	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 wondered	advcl
76	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	78 felt	nsubj
77	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	78 felt	advmod
78	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 awake	ccomp
79	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 felt	xcomp
80	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	Japan			the woods	night		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
2	live	past	Japan					upon wild fruits	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location
3	keep	past · progressive	the Fairy	a benevolent eye				upon Japan	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon he=Location
4	think speech: other	past	the Fairy						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not do	would	eye						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	let	to-infinitive	eye not said here	Japan					tree rules
7	be	infinitive	half						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	starve	participle		half not said here		that way			tree rules
9	take	past	half						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	feed	gerund	half not said here		Japan			with all sorts of good things	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
11	is	past	Japan					asleep property	tree rules
12	wonder speech: ask	past	the Prince						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
13	is	past	Japan					awake property	tree rules
14	not feel	past	Japan					hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
15	sort			good things					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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