Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 26

They thanked him, and told him that they felt great joy at his good luck, but wished him to keep his riches for himself.

Who acts: mistress · What happens: thank, tell, feel, wish, keep · To what, where: boy, great joy, good luck, riches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 felt	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 joy	amod
12	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 luck	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 luck	nmod:poss
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 luck	amod
16	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wished	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 wished	cc
19	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wished	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 keep	mark
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wished	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 riches	nmod:poss
24	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 keep	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 himself	case
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 keep	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	mistress		boy			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	mistress not said here		boy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	feel	past	mistress	great joy		boy's good luck		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent joy=Theme at luck=Location
4	wish	past	mistress not said here	boy				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
5	keep	to-infinitive	mistress not said here	boy's riches			for boy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme

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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