The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 127

They ceased not to extol and envy the happiness of their friend, who in the mean time no way diverted herself in looking upon all these rich things, because of the impatience she had to go and open the closet of the ground floor.

Who acts: neighbours, happiness, way, impatience · What happens: cease, not extol, envy, divert, look, have · To what, where: happiness, way, impatience, closet

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbours, happiness, way, impatience), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ceased	nsubj
2	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 extol	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 extol	mark
5	extol	extol	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ceased	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 envy	cc
7	envy	envy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 extol	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 happiness	det
9	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 envy	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 friend	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happiness	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 diverted	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 diverted	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 time	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 time	det
17	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 diverted	obl
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 diverted	nsubj
21	diverted	divert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happiness	conj
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 diverted	obj
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 looking	mark
24	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 diverted	advcl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 things	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 things	det:predet
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 things	det
28	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 things	amod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 looking	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 impatience	punct
31	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	34 impatience	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 because	fixed
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 impatience	det
34	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 envy	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 impatience	acl:relcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 go	mark
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 open	cc
40	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 go	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 closet	det
42	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 open	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 floor	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 floor	det
45	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 floor	compound
46	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 closet	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cease	past	neighbours = neighbour				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	not extol	to-infinitive	neighbours = neighbour not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	envy	infinitive	neighbours = neighbour not said here	the happiness of neighbours's friend		because the impatience	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus
4	divert	past	the happiness of neighbours's friend	way	time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
5	look	gerund	the happiness of neighbours's friend not said here			upon all rich things	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon thing=Theme
6	have	past	way	the impatience not said here			tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	the impatience not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	open	infinitive	the impatience not said here	the closet of the ground floor			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location closet=Theme

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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