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title: So he endured the pangs of starvation all that day, but when night c… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he endured the pangs of starvation all that day, but when night came his endurance gave way, and he let his right eye be put out and his right leg broken for a second piece of bread. Who acts: Ferko, night, right eye. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 21

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So he endured the pangs of starvation all that day, but when night came his endurance gave way, and he let his right eye be put out and his right leg broken for a second piece of bread.

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**Who acts:** Ferko, night, right eye · **What happens:** endure, come, give, let, put out, break · **To what, where:** pangs, endurance, way, right eye, right leg

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Ferko, night, right eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:14:21
# text = So he endured the pangs of starvation all that day, but when night came his endurance gave way, and he let his right eye be put out and his right leg broken for a second piece of bread.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	endured	endure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pangs	pang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	starvation	starvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	endurance	endurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
34	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
38	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endure** | past | Ferko | the pangs of starvation |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pang=Circumstance |
| 2 | **come** | past | night | Ferko's endurance |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location endurance=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | Ferko *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | past | Ferko | Ferko's right eye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put out** | infinitive · passive | Ferko's right eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 6 | **break** | participle |  | Ferko's right leg *not said here* |  |  |  | for a second piece of bread | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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