The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 7

But he never thought of spending the money on himself, because he was content to pass the rest of his days as he had been doing for ever so long, and he really had no desire for any greater comfort or luxury.

Who acts: man · What happens: not think, spend, be, pass, do, have · To what, where: money, rest, desire

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	4 thought	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 thought	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 spending	mark
6	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 thought	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 money	det
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spending	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 spending	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 content	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 content	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 content	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 content	cop
15	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pass	mark
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 content	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pass	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 days	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 days	nmod:poss
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rest	nmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 doing	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 doing	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 doing	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 doing	aux
27	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 pass	advcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 ever	case
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 doing	obl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 long	advmod
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 doing	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
35	really	really	ADV	_	36 had	advmod
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 desire	det
38	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
39	for	for	ADP	_	42 comfort	case
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	42 comfort	det
41	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 comfort	amod
42	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 desire	nmod
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 luxury	cc
44	luxury	luxury	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 comfort	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past	man			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spend	gerund	man not said here	the money	on man	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on himself=Goal
3	is	past	man		content property	tree rules
4	pass	to-infinitive	man not said here	the rest of man's days		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rest=Trajectory
5	do	past · perfect · progressive	man		long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	man	no desire	for any greater comfort or luxury	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient

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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