Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 26

And so he might have lived in all peace and prosperity to the end of his days had not his desires outstripped his deserts.

Who acts: Serpent, days, desires · What happens: live, have, not outstrip, desire · To what, where: peace, end, deserts

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serpent, days, desires), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 lived	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lived	aux
6	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 peace	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 peace	det
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 prosperity	cc
11	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peace	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 days	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 days	nmod:poss
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 end	acl:relcl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 outstripped	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 desires	nmod:poss
21	desires	desire	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 outstripped	nsubj
22	outstripped	outstrip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 had	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 deserts	nmod:poss
24	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 outstripped	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	might · perfect	Serpent		all peace and prosperity	to the end	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location
2	have	past	Serpent's days	the end not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient
3	not outstrip	past	Serpent's desires	Serpent's deserts			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot desert=Theme
4	desire		Serpent				nom desire «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: «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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