The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 7

He would eat nothing nor take pleasure in anything, but lay all day on a heap of cushions, gazing at the picture of the princess.

Who acts: Desiree · What happens: eat, take, lie, gaze · To what, where: nothing, pleasure, anything, heap

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Desiree), 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	3 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 eat	obj
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 take	cc
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	conj
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 take	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 lay	cc
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	parataxis
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl:unmarked
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 heap	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 heap	det
17	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 cushions	case
19	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heap	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gazing	punct
21	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lay	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 picture	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 picture	det
24	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gazing	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 princess	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 princess	det
27	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 picture	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	Desiree	nothing				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	take	infinitive	Desiree not said here	pleasure	anything			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in anything=Location
3	lie	past			a heap of cushions	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on heap=Location
4	gaze	gerund					at the picture of the princess	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=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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