The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 82

He thought for some minutes, and then said: “My honoured father, what can be better than the happiness of being your son, and what nobler than the riches of your love.

Who acts: Labakan, honoured father, your · What happens: think, say, honour, be, love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, honoured father, your), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 minutes	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 minutes	det
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
12	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
13	honoured	honour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 father	amod
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 better	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 better	obl
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 better	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 better	cop
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 said	parataxis
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 happiness	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 happiness	det
22	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 better	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 son	case
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 son	cop
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 son	nmod:poss
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 happiness	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 nobler	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 nobler	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 nobler	nsubj
30	nobler	noble	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 better	conj
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 riches	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 riches	det
33	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 nobler	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 love	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 love	nmod:poss
36	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 riches	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Labakan	minute		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Labakan not said here	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	honour in a quote	participle				tree rules
4	is in a quote	can	My honoured father		than the happiness; good property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	gerund			of your son	tree rules
6	be in a quote				than the riches of your love	tree rules
7	love in a quote		your			nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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