The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 34

The two young men thought it was much nicer to live at home and be idle than to be obliged to do a quantity of disagreeable things they did not like, and they would have stayed by the fire till the end of their lives had not the widow lost patience with them and said that since they would not look for work at home they must seek it elsewhere, for she would not have them under her roof any longer.

Who acts: two young men, it, words, widow · What happens: think, be, live, oblige, do, not like · To what, where: home, quantity, disagreeable things, patience, name, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two young men, it, words, widow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nicer	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nicer	cop
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 nicer	advmod
9	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 thought	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 live	mark
11	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 nicer	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 live	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 idle	cc
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 idle	cop
16	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 live	conj
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 obliged	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	20 obliged	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 obliged	aux:pass
20	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 idle	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 obliged	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 quantity	det
24	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 things	case
26	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 quantity	nmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 like	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 like	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 like	advmod
31	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 things	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stayed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stayed	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stayed	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 stayed	aux
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 stayed	aux
37	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 thought	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 fire	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fire	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stayed	obl
41	till	till	ADP	_	43 end	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 end	det
43	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stayed	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 lives	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 lives	nmod:poss
46	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 end	nmod
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 stayed	advcl
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 lost	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 widow	det
50	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lost	nsubj
51	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 had	ccomp
52	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lost	obj
53	with	with	ADP	_	54 them	case
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 patience	nmod
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 said	cc
56	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 lost	conj
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 look	mark
58	since	since	SCONJ	_	62 look	mark
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 look	nsubj
60	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 look	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 look	advmod
62	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 said	ccomp
63	for	for	ADP	_	64 work	case
64	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 look	obl
65	at	at	ADP	_	66 home	case
66	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 seek	obl
67	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 seek	nsubj
68	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 seek	aux
69	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 look	conj
70	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 seek	obj
71	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	69 seek	advmod
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 have	punct
73	for	for	SCONJ	_	77 have	mark
74	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 have	nsubj
75	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	77 have	aux
76	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	77 have	advmod
77	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 seek	conj
78	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 have	obj
79	under	under	ADP	_	81 roof	case
80	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	81 roof	nmod:poss
81	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 have	obl
82	any	any	ADV	_	83 longer	advmod
83	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	77 have	advmod
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the two young men					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it				nice property	tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive			home			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
4	is	infinitive					idle property	tree rules
5	oblige	to-infinitive · passive						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
6	do	to-infinitive		a quantity of disagreeable things				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Eventuality
7	not like	past · do-support	words = word	disagreeable things not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
8	stay	would · perfect	words = word			till the end of words's lives	by the fire	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fire=Location
9	have	past	words = word not said here					tree rules
10	not lose	past	the widow	patience			with words = word	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality
11	say speech: assert	past	the widow not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	not look	would	words = word				for work	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme
13	seek	must	words = word	name	home		elsewhere property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at home=Location
14	not have	would	widow	words = word	widow's roof		long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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