The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 106

Jack would have liked nothing better than to sit and dream by the fire, but the mother, who was very old herself, declared that there was no work for him to do, and that he must seek it with his brothers.

Who acts: Jack, mother, work · What happens: like, sit, dream, be, declare, do · To what, where: nothing, work

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, mother, work), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 liked	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	aux
4	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 liked	obj
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 nothing	amod
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 sit	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dream	cc
11	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sit	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 fire	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dream	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 declared	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 declared	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mother	det
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 declared	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 old	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 old	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 old	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 old	advmod
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mother	amod
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 old	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
26	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 was	mark
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 declared	advcl
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 work	det
31	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 was	nsubj
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 do	mark
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 do	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 do	mark
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 work	acl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seek	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 seek	cc
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 seek	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 seek	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 seek	aux
41	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 declared	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 seek	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 brothers	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 brothers	nmod:poss
45	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 seek	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	would · perfect	Jack	nothing			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	sit	to-infinitive	Jack not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dream	infinitive	Jack not said here			by the fire	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the mother			Michael obl; old property	tree rules
5	declare speech: other	past	the mother				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	no work		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do	to-infinitive	Jack				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	seek	must	Jack	work		with Jack's brothers	vn hunt-35.1 «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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