The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 28

But, after a bit, this amusement ceased to content him, and besides, what was the use of planning when you did not know for certain how rich you were?

Who acts: amusement, you · What happens: cease, content, be, not know · To what, where: amusement, use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amusement, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 ceased	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 bit	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ceased	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 amusement	det
8	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ceased	nsubj
9	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 content	mark
11	content	content	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ceased	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 content	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 use	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 use	cc
15	besides	besides	INTJ	_	20 use	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 besides	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 use	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 use	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 use	det
20	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ceased	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 planning	case
22	planning	planning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 use	nmod
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 know	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 use	advcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 certain	case
29	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 know	obl
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 rich	advmod
31	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 know	ccomp
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 rich	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rich	cop
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cease	past	this amusement		after a bit		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	content	to-infinitive	this amusement not said here	amusement			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	is a	past		the use		of planning	tree rules
4	not know	past · do-support	you			for certain	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	you			rich property	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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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