The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 23

So he sat there full of grief and misery, eating every day only a tiny bit of bread, and drinking only a mouthful of ovine, and he watched death creeping nearer and nearer to him.

Who acts: provision, death · What happens: sit, eat, drink, watch, creep · To what, where: tiny bit, mouthful, death, provision

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (provision, death), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grief	case
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 misery	cc
9	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grief	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eating	punct
11	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eating	obj
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 bit	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bit	det
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bit	amod
17	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eating	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 bread	case
19	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bit	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drinking	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drinking	cc
22	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 mouthful	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mouthful	det
25	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drinking	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 ovine	case
27	ovine	ovine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mouthful	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 watched	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 watched	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 watched	nsubj
31	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 watched	obj
33	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 watched	xcomp
34	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 creeping	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 nearer	cc
36	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 nearer	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 creeping	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	provision			there		full property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	gerund	provision not said here	a tiny bit of bread			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	gerund	provision not said here	a mouthful of ovine					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient
4	watch	past	provision	death					tree rules
5	creep	gerund	death not said here		provision			near property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination

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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