The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 61

Another time they had forgotten to give him any water to drink, so that he was nearly dead with thirst; and the worst thing of all was that he was in danger of losing his kingdom, for he had been absent so long that all his subjects believed him to be dead.

Who acts: eyes, King, worst thing, subjects · What happens: forget, not give, drink, be, lose, believe · To what, where: water, King, danger, kingdom

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, King, worst thing, subjects), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgotten	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgotten	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forgotten	aux
5	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forgotten	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 drink	mark
12	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 give	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dead	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 dead	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dead	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dead	cop
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	19 dead	advmod
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 drink	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 thirst	case
21	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dead	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 danger	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 danger	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 thing	det
25	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 thing	amod
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 danger	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 thing	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 danger	cop
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 danger	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 danger	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 danger	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 danger	case
34	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgotten	advcl
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 losing	mark
36	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 danger	advcl
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 kingdom	nmod:poss
38	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 losing	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 absent	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 absent	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 absent	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 absent	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 absent	cop
44	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forgotten	conj
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 long	advmod
46	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 absent	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 believed	mark
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 subjects	det:predet
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 subjects	nmod:poss
50	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 believed	nsubj
51	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 long	advcl
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 believed	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	55 dead	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 dead	cop
55	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 believed	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect	eyes = eye				time		tree rules
2	not give	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here	any water	King				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Theme
3	drink	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	King					with thirst; dead, nearly property	tree rules
5	is	past	the worst thing of all			danger			tree rules
6	lose	gerund	the worst thing of all not said here	King's kingdom					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Eventuality
7	is	past · perfect	King					absent property	tree rules
8	be		King not said here						tree rules
9	believe	past	King's subjects	King					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
10	is	to-infinitive	King's subjects not said here					dead property	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 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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