The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 29

_For want of further occupation he returned to the writing of verse, one of the chief pleasures of his boyhood.

Who acts: want · What happens: return, want, write, please · To what, where: one, further occupation, verse, boyhood

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (want), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	3 want	case
3	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returned	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 occupation	case
5	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 occupation	amod
6	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 returned	nsubj
8	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 writing	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 writing	det
11	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returned	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 verse	case
13	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 writing	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 returned	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 pleasures	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pleasures	det
18	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pleasures	amod
19	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 boyhood	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 boyhood	nmod:poss
22	boyhood	boyhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pleasures	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	want of further occupation	one of the chief pleasures of want's boyhood	to the writing of verse result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to writing=Result
2	want			further occupation		nom want «state transitive»: of=patient
3	write			verse		nom writing «act transitive»: of=patient
4	please			want's boyhood		nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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