More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 88

And so they were, for there was nothing that he desired but what he had, the same as if he was in the palace with his father and mother.

Who acts: tents, gentleman · What happens: be, desire, have · To what, where: nothing, palace

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tents, gentleman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 nothing	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	9 nothing	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nothing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nothing	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 was	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nothing	cop
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 desired	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 desired	nsubj
12	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nothing	advcl
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 desired	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 same	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 same	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nothing	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 palace	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 palace	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 palace	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 palace	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 palace	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 palace	det
26	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 same	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 father	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 palace	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mother	cc
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 father	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	tents = tent	nothing			tree rules
2	desire	past	gentleman				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	have	past	gentleman				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	be		tents = tent not said here				tree rules
5	is	past	gentleman		the palace	with gentleman's father and mother	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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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