Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 18

He kept to himself, and his goods increased and multiplied exceedingly; the only thing wanting to his happiness was a wife, but a wife he was afraid to take.

Who acts: servant, goods, only thing, wife · What happens: keep, increase, multiply, want, be, take · To what, where: servant, wife

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, goods, only thing, wife), 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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 kept	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 increased	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 increased	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 goods	nmod:poss
8	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 increased	nsubj
9	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 multiplied	cc
11	multiplied	multiply	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 increased	conj
12	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	11 multiplied	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 wife	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wife	nsubj
17	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 thing	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 happiness	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 happiness	nmod:poss
20	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wanting	obl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wife	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wife	det
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 afraid	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 afraid	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wife	det
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 afraid	nsubj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 afraid	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 afraid	cop
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 take	mark
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 afraid	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	servant		servant		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	increase	past	servant's goods				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	multiply	past	servant's goods not said here			exceedingly property	vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	want	gerund	the only thing not said here			to servant's happiness	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to happiness=Attribute
5	is a	past	the only thing	a wife			tree rules
6	is	past	a wife			afraid property	tree rules
7	take	to-infinitive	a wife not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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