--- title: At night he slept in the woods, and at first he lived upon wild frui… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At night he slept in the woods, and at first he lived upon wild fruits; but the Fairy, who was keeping a benevolent eye upon him, thought that it would never do to let him be half-starved in that way, so she took to feeding him with all sorts of good things while he was asleep, and the Prince wonder --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/57/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Heart of Ice, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/) / 57 # The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 57 At night he slept in the woods, and at first he lived upon wild fruits; but the Fairy, who was keeping a benevolent eye upon him, thought that it would never do to let him be half-starved in that way, so she took to feeding him with all sorts of good things while he was asleep, and the Prince wondered very much that when he was awake he never felt hungry! **Who acts:** Japan, Fairy, eye, half, Prince · **What happens:** sleep, live, keep, think, not do, let · **To what, where:** woods, benevolent eye, Japan, half, way, good things This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Japan, Fairy, eye, half), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:14:57 # text = At night he slept in the woods, and at first he lived upon wild fruits; but the Fairy, who was keeping a benevolent eye upon him, thought that it would never do to let him be half-starved in that way, so she took to feeding him with all sorts of good things while he was asleep, and the Prince wondered very much that when he was awake he never felt hungry! 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 upon upon ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 benevolent benevolent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 31 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 starved starve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 46 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 so so ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 49 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 50 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 50 advcl _ _ 53 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 iobj _ _ 54 with with ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 56 det _ _ 56 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nmod _ _ 60 while while SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 61 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 62 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 cop _ _ 63 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 nsubj _ _ 68 wondered wonder VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 conj _ _ 69 very very ADV RB _ 70 advmod _ _ 70 much much ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 71 that that SCONJ IN _ 75 mark _ _ 72 when when SCONJ WRB _ 75 mark _ _ 73 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 75 nsubj _ _ 74 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 75 cop _ _ 75 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 advcl _ _ 76 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 78 nsubj _ _ 77 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 78 advmod _ _ 78 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 75 ccomp _ _ 79 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 78 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 80 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | past | Japan | | | the woods | night | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | | 2 | **live** | past | Japan | | | | | upon wild fruits | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location | | 3 | **keep** | past · progressive | the Fairy | a benevolent eye | | | | upon Japan | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon he=Location | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Fairy | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **not** **do** | would | eye | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **let** | to-infinitive | eye *not said here* | Japan | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | infinitive | half | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **starve** | participle | | half *not said here* | | that way | | | tree rules | | 9 | **take** | past | half | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **feed** | gerund | half *not said here* | | Japan | | | with all sorts of good things | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 11 | **is** | past | Japan | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 12 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | the Prince | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 13 | **is** | past | Japan | | | | | awake *property* | tree rules | | 14 | **not** **feel** | past | Japan | | | | | hungry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 15 | **sort** | | | good things | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/58/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/)