The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 3

He did not want to part with the riches that his father had left him, for he had known all his life what it was to be cold and hungry, and now he had hoped for a little comfort and pleasure.

Who acts: remembrance, part · What happens: not want, leave, know, be, hope · To what, where: part, riches, remembrance

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remembrance, part), 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	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 part	mark
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 riches	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 riches	det
9	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 part	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 left	nsubj:pass
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 riches	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 known	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 known	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 known	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 known	aux
20	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 want	parataxis
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 life	det:predet
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 known	obl:unmarked
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 known	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cold	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 cold	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	29 cold	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 cold	cop
29	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 what	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hungry	cc
31	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cold	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hoped	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hoped	cc
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 hoped	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hoped	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hoped	aux
37	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 known	parataxis
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 comfort	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 comfort	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 comfort	amod
41	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hoped	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 pleasure	cc
43	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 comfort	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	remembrance	part			with the riches	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot part=Theme
2	leave	past · perfect · passive		the riches	remembrance			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute
3	know	past · perfect · passive		remembrance			remembrance's life obl:unmarked	tree rules
4	is	past	part				cold property	tree rules
5	be		part not said here					tree rules
6	hope	past · perfect	remembrance			now	for a little comfort and pleasure	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for comfort=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: «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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