The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 21

He had everything he could wish for, and did nothing from morning till night; but by-and-by he began to get very tired of it all.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: have, wish, do, begin, get · To what, where: everything, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 had	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wish	aux
6	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 everything	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 wish	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 did	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 morning	case
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	nmod
14	till	till	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 began	mark
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 by	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 by	cc
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 by	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	18 by	fixed
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 get	mark
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 tired	advmod
28	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 get	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tired	obl
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 it	det
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Jack	everything			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
2	wish	could	Jack				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	do	past	Jack not said here	nothing	from morning; night		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	begin	past	Jack				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	get	to-infinitive	Jack not said here			tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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