The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 119

Suddenly his daily work seemed to grow harder and heavier, and he said to himself: “Oh, if only I were a rich man, and could sleep in a bed with silken curtains and golden tassels, how happy I should be!”

Who acts: daily work, Cutter · What happens: seem, grow, say, be, sleep, work · To what, where: Cutter, rich man, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (daily work, 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 seemed	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 work	nmod:poss
3	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 work	amod
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grow	mark
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seemed	xcomp
8	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 grow	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 heavier	cc
10	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 harder	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 said	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	27 man	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Oh	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 only	mark
22	only	only	ADV	_	27 man	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 man	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 man	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sleep	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sleep	cc
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 sleep	aux
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	parataxis
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 bed	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bed	det
34	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sleep	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 curtains	case
36	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 curtains	amod
37	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sleep	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tassels	cc
39	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 tassels	amod
40	tassels	tassel	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 curtains	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 happy	punct
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 happy	advmod
43	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 tassels	amod
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 be	nsubj
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 be	aux
46	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 happy	ccomp
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 sleep	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Cutter's daily work				suddenly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	grow	to-infinitive	Cutter's daily work not said here				hard property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	Cutter		Cutter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	past	Cutter	a rich man				tree rules
5	sleep in a quote	could				a bed	with silken curtains and golden tassels	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
6	be in a quote	should	Cutter					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	work		Cutter					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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