The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 41

His bed was hard and his food scanty, but he had learned to be satisfied with it, and did not long to be something or somebody else.

Who acts: bed, man · What happens: be, learn, not be · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, man), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bed	nmod:poss
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 scanty	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 scanty	nmod:poss
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scanty	compound
8	scanty	scanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hard	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 learned	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 learned	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 learned	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 learned	aux
13	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 hard	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	16 satisfied	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 satisfied	cop
16	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 learned	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 satisfied	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 long	cc
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 long	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hard	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 something	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 something	cop
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 long	advcl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 somebody	cc
28	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 something	conj
29	else	else	ADV	_	28 somebody	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	man's bed		hard property	tree rules
2	learn	past · perfect	man			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	man not said here		with bed; satisfied property	tree rules
4	not be	past · do-support	man's bed not said here			tree rules
5	is a	to-infinitive	man's bed not said here	something		tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/20/41/