The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 105

The sports that all his life had pleased him best suddenly seemed to have grown dull, and he wanted to do something he had never done before.

Who acts: sports, life · What happens: have, seem, grow, want, do, not do · To what, where: that, something

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sports, life), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sports	det
2	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 life	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pleased	nsubj
10	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 seemed	advmod
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 seemed	advmod
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 grown	mark
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 grown	aux
15	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 seemed	xcomp
16	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grown	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wanted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wanted	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 do	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 done	advmod
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 something	acl:relcl
28	before	before	ADV	_	27 done	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the sports	that	pleased property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
2	seem	past	the sports not said here		suddenly, well property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	grow	to-infinitive · perfect	the sports not said here		dull property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	want	past	life			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	life not said here	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
6	not do	past · perfect	life		before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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