The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 95

The young man himself could imagine no greater happiness, and when the marriage was over they spent some months at the court making merry.

Who acts: young man, thanks · What happens: imagine, spend, make · To what, where: greater happiness, court

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, thanks), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 imagine	nsubj
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 imagine	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 imagine	aux
6	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 happiness	det
8	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 happiness	amod
9	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 imagine	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spent	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 over	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 marriage	det
14	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 over	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 over	cop
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 spent	advcl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spent	nsubj
18	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 imagine	parataxis
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 months	det
20	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spent	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 court	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 court	det
23	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spent	obl
24	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 spent	advcl
25	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 making	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	could	the young man	no greater happiness				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot happiness=Theme
2	spend	past	thanks		the court	month		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	gerund	thanks not said here				merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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