The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 41

He could have feasted his eyes all day on the treasures, but he now hastened to gather together as much of it as possible; but when he was ready to go he could not remember what to say for thinking of his great riches.

Who acts: Cassim · What happens: feast, hasten, gather, be, go, not remember · To what, where: eyes, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cassim), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feasted	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feasted	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 feasted	aux
4	feasted	feast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feasted	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feasted	obl:unmarked
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 treasures	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 treasures	det
11	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 day	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hastened	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 hastened	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hastened	nsubj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 hastened	advmod
16	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 feasted	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 gather	mark
18	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hastened	xcomp
19	together	together	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gather	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 much	nmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 possible	mark
25	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 much	advcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 ready	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 ready	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 ready	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ready	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ready	cop
31	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feasted	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 remember	advcl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 remember	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 remember	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 remember	advmod
37	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ready	parataxis
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 say	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 say	mark
40	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 remember	xcomp
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 thinking	mark
42	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 say	ccomp
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 riches	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 riches	nmod:poss
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 riches	amod
46	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 thinking	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feast	could · perfect	Cassim	Cassim's eyes	day		tree rules
2	hasten	participle	Cassim		now		tree rules
3	gather	to-infinitive	Cassim not said here	much of treasure			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
4	is	past	Cassim			ready property	tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	Cassim not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not remember	could	Cassim				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Cassim not said here				tree rules
8	think speech: other	gerund				of Cassim's great riches	vn focus-87.1-1 «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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