The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 107

For many years he had had no children, but at length the son he had so long wished for was born.

Who acts: king · What happens: have, wish, bear · To what, where: children, length

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	_	3 years	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wished	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 wished	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 length	case
12	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wished	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 son	det
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 length	nmod:unmarked
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wished	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wished	aux
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 wished	advmod
19	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 had	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 born	case
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 born	aux:pass
22	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 wished	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	king	no children		year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	wish	past · perfect	king		length the son		long property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	bear not said to happen	past · passive	king not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

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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