The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 108

But when he reached his twenty-fifth birthday he began to think that it might be rather nice to have a wife, and he thought so much that at last he got quite eager about it.

Who acts: Prince, it · What happens: reach, begin, think, be, have, get · To what, where: fifth birthday, wife, much, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Prince, it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 birthday	nmod:poss
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fifth	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 twenty	punct
8	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birthday	amod
9	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 think	mark
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 nice	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 nice	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 nice	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 nice	cop
18	rather	rather	ADV	_	19 nice	advmod
19	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 think	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 nice	xcomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wife	det
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thought	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thought	obj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 got	mark
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 last	case
32	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 much	advcl
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 eager	advmod
36	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 got	xcomp
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 eager	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Prince	Prince's fifth birthday			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme
2	begin	past	Prince				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Prince not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	might	it			nice property	tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive		a wife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
6	think speech: other	past	Prince	much			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
7	get	past	Prince		last	eager property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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