The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 35

When at last he stood within the little hut he saw with despair that it was a picture of poverty, and that not a crumb of anything eatable was to be seen, and when he explained to the old woman that he was dying of hunger and fatigue she only answered tranquilly that he must have patience.

Who acts: Prince, despair, woman · What happens: stand, see, be, explain, die, answer · To what, where: last, picture, crumb, old woman, hunger, patience · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Prince, despair, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stood	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	advcl
6	within	within	ADP	_	9 hut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hut	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hut	amod
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 despair	case
13	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 picture	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 picture	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 picture	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 picture	det
18	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 poverty	case
20	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 picture	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seen	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seen	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 seen	mark
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 crumb	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 crumb	det
26	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 anything	case
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 crumb	nmod
29	eatable	eatable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 anything	amod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux:pass
31	to	to	PART	_	33 seen	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 seen	aux:pass
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 saw	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 explained	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 explained	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 explained	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 explained	nsubj
38	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 woman	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 woman	det
41	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 woman	amod
42	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 explained	obl
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 dying	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 dying	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 dying	aux
46	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 explained	ccomp
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 hunger	case
48	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 dying	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 fatigue	cc
50	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hunger	conj
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 answered	nsubj
52	only	only	ADV	_	53 answered	advmod
53	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 hunger	acl:relcl
54	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 answered	xcomp
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 have	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 have	nsubj
57	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 have	aux
58	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 tranquilly	advcl
59	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 have	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Prince			last	within the little hut	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
2	see	past	Prince				with despair	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	despair	a picture			of poverty	tree rules
4	see	past · passive		a crumb of anything				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	explain speech: assert	past	Prince		the old woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient clause=Topic
6	die	past · progressive	Prince				of hunger and fatigue	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
7	answer speech: assert	past	woman	hunger and fatigue not said here			tranquilly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hunger=Eventuality
8	have	must	Prince	patience				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=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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