The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 114
For a long time he was quite happy and contented, and asked for nothing better than what he had.
Who acts: Cutter · What happens: be, content, ask, have
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cutter), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | cop |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 happy | advmod |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 contented | cc |
| 10 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 happy | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 nothing | case |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 asked | obl |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 better | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Cutter | time | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | content | participle | Cutter not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Cutter not said here | for nothing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Cutter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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