The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 70

In this manner they did not see very much of each other--and perhaps agreed all the better for that; but at any rate they were perfectly happy, and only wanted one thing, or, rather, two things, and that was a wife for each.

Who acts: Owl, that · What happens: not see, agree, be, want · To what, where: much, manner, rate, one thing, wife

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owl, that), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 each	case
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 much	nmod
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 agreed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 agreed	cc
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 agreed	advmod
16	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	parataxis
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 better	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 better	det
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 agreed	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 better	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 happy	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 happy	cc
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 rate	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 rate	det
26	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 happy	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 happy	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 happy	cop
29	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	30 happy	advmod
30	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wanted	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wanted	cc
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 wanted	advmod
34	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	advcl
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 thing	nummod
36	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wanted	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 things	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 things	cc
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 or	punct
40	rather	rather	ADV	_	43 things	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rather	punct
42	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 things	nummod
43	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 wanted	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 wife	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 wife	cc
46	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 wife	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 wife	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 wife	det
49	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wanted	parataxis
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 each	case
51	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	49 wife	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	Owl	much of each	this manner		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
2	agree speech: agree	past				perhaps property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Owl		any rate	happy, perfectly property	tree rules
4	want	past	Owl not said here	one thing		two things obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
5	is a	past	that	a wife		for each	tree rules

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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