The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 31

Everyone thought that he could never be sufficiently grateful to her for all she had done for them all.

Who acts: Everyone, bear, cure · What happens: think, not be, do · To what, where: cure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, bear, cure), 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 grateful	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grateful	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grateful	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 grateful	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 grateful	cop
8	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	9 grateful	advmod
9	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grateful	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 grateful	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 done	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 grateful	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 done	obl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 them	nmod:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Everyone			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	could	bear	cure	for all; grateful, sufficiently property	tree rules
3	do	past · perfect	cure		for rejoicings = rejoicing	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 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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