The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 34

All would have gone well had not Maie been possessed with a secret longing which never let her rest; and this was, how she could manage to become the owner of a cow.

Who acts: All, secret longing, this · What happens: go, have, not possess, not let, rest, be · To what, where: Maie, secret longing, owner

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (All, secret longing, this), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gone	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 gone	conj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 possessed	advmod
8	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 possessed	nsubj:pass
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 possessed	aux:pass
10	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 had	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 longing	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 longing	det
13	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 longing	amod
14	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 possessed	obl
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 let	obj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 let	advmod
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 longing	acl:relcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 manage	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 manage	cc
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 manage	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 manage	cop
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 manage	punct
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 manage	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 manage	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 manage	aux
28	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 become	mark
30	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 manage	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 owner	det
32	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 become	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 cow	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 cow	det
35	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 owner	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	would · perfect	All			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	participle	All not said here		well property	tree rules
3	not possess	participle · passive		Maie	with a secret longing	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not let	past		a secret longing		tree rules
5	rest	infinitive	a secret longing not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	could · past	this		manage property	tree rules
7	become	to-infinitive	this not said here	the owner of a cow		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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