Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 3

He had every-thing that heart could wish.

Who acts: man, thing · What happens: have, wish · To what, where: thing

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, thing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 thing	det
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 every	punct
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 wish	nsubj
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wish	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 wish	aux
9	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	every thing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	wish	could	every thing						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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