The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 4

It was not on his lost treasures that his mind dwelt, but on his conduct to his parents: his laziness and disobedience as a boy; his forgetfulness of them as a man.

Who acts: money, mind, trace · What happens: lose, not be, dwell, mind, conduct · To what, where: lost treasures

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, mind, trace), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 treasures	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 treasures	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 treasures	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 treasures	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 treasures	nmod:poss
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 treasures	amod
7	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 dwelt	obj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mind	nmod:poss
10	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwelt	nsubj
11	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 treasures	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 conduct	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 conduct	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 conduct	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 conduct	nmod:poss
16	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwelt	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 parents	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 parents	nmod:poss
19	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 conduct	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 laziness	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 laziness	nmod:poss
22	laziness	laziness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 conduct	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 disobedience	cc
24	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laziness	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 boy	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 boy	det
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 disobedience	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 forgetfulness	punct
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 forgetfulness	nmod:poss
30	forgetfulness	forgetfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laziness	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 forgetfulness	nmod
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 man	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwelt	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 treasures	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	money		trace's lost treasures		tree rules
3	dwell	past	trace's mind	trace's lost treasures		as a man	tree rules
4	mind		trace				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
5	conduct		trace			to trace's parents	nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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