The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 65

At last, just when the pain was so great that Medio Pollito thought he must die, the cook lifted up the lid of the pot to see if the broth was ready for the King’s dinner.

Who acts: pain, Medio, cook, broth · What happens: be, think, die, lift up, see · To what, where: last, lid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pain, Medio, cook, broth), 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 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 great	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	10 great	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 great	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pain	det
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 great	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 great	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 great	advmod
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 thought	mark
12	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thought	nsubj
13	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Medio	flat
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 great	advcl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 die	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 die	aux
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thought	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lifted	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cook	det
20	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lifted	nsubj
21	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 die	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 lifted	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lid	det
24	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lifted	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 pot	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pot	det
27	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lid	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lifted	advcl
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 ready	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 broth	det
32	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ready	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 ready	cop
34	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 see	ccomp
35	for	for	ADP	_	39 dinner	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 King	det
37	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 dinner	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 King	case
39	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ready	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the pain		last	great property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Medio				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	die	must	Medio				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	lift up	past	the cook	the lid of the pot			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	the cook not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the broth			for the King's dinner; ready 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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