The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 8

‘I was the only son of my father and mother, and much store they set by me, but I was not content to stay with them at home, for I thought no deed in all the world was too mighty for me.

Who acts: I, Tales, deed · What happens: be, set, not be, stay, think · To what, where: only son, much store, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Tales, deed), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 son	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 son	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mother	cc
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 father	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 set	cc
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 store	amod
15	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	nsubj
17	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 son	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 set	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 content	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 content	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 content	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 content	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 content	advmod
25	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 set	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stay	mark
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 content	xcomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stay	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 home	case
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stay	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thought	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 thought	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 thought	nsubj
35	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stay	advcl
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 deed	det
37	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 mighty	nsubj
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 world	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 world	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 deed	nmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 mighty	cop
43	too	too	ADV	_	44 mighty	advmod
44	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thought	ccomp
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 me	case
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 mighty	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	the only son		of my father and mother	tree rules
2	set	present	Tales = tale	much store		by me	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme by i=Destination
3	not is	past	I			content property	tree rules
4	stay	to-infinitive	I not said here		home	with Tales = tale	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
5	think speech: other	past	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	no deed in all world			for me; mighty 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 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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