The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

After all, they had only been married a week, and the pleasure of giving it to her ought to be far greater than the pleasure of keeping it for himself.

Who acts: pleasure, greater pleasure · What happens: marry, give, be, keep · To what, where: all, pleasure, princess

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, greater pleasure), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 all	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 married	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 all	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 married	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 married	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 married	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 married	aux:pass
8	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 pleasure	csubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 married	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 greater	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 greater	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pleasure	det
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 greater	nsubj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 giving	mark
16	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 pleasure	acl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 giving	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 giving	obl
20	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 greater	aux
21	to	to	PART	_	24 greater	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 greater	cop
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 greater	advmod
24	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 pleasure	amod
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 pleasure	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pleasure	det
27	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 keeping	mark
29	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 pleasure	acl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 keeping	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 himself	case
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 keeping	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 pleasure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · perfect · passive		all		week		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	give	gerund	the pleasure not said here	pleasure	princess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient
3	is	ought	the pleasure				far, great property	tree rules
4	keep	gerund	the greater pleasure not said here	pleasure			for stone	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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