The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 42

And as he never asked for things he had not got, or desired to be greater and mightier than other people, he was happy at last, and heard the voice of the mountain spirit no longer.

Who acts: man · What happens: not ask, not get, desire, be, hear · To what, where: things, last, voice

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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 happy	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 asked	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 asked	advmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 happy	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 things	case
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asked	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 things	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 desired	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 desired	cc
14	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 asked	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	17 greater	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 greater	cop
17	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 desired	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mightier	cc
19	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 greater	conj
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 people	case
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 mightier	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 happy	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 happy	cop
26	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 happy	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 heard	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 heard	cc
31	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 happy	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 voice	det
33	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heard	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 spirit	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 spirit	det
36	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spirit	compound
37	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 voice	nmod
38	no	no	ADV	_	39 longer	advmod
39	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 heard	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	past	man			for things	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not get	past · perfect	man	things not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	desire	participle					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive				great property	tree rules
5	be					than other people	tree rules
6	is	past	man		last	happy property	tree rules
7	hear	past		the voice of the mountain spirit		long property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

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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