The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 112

But on each occasion he saw him the desire to possess the bowl and the lance became stronger.

Who acts: Peronnik, lance · What happens: see, possess, become · To what, where: idiot, occasion, bowl

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (Peronnik, lance), 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	_	6 saw	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 occasion	case
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 occasion	det
4	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 desire	det
9	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 possess	mark
11	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 desire	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bowl	det
13	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 possess	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 became	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lance	det
16	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 became	nsubj
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bowl	conj
18	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 became	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Peronnik	idiot	each occasion		tree rules
2	possess	to-infinitive	Peronnik not said here	the bowl			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bowl=Theme
3	become	past	the lance			strong property	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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