The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 25

I stayed two months with my wife and family; but my eager desire to see foreign countries would suffer me to remain no longer.

Who acts: I, eager desire, my · What happens: stay, see, suffer, remain, desire · To what, where: foreign countries, me

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, eager desire, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stayed	obl:unmarked
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 family	cc
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 suffer	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 suffer	cc
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 desire	nmod:poss
13	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 desire	amod
14	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 suffer	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 desire	acl
17	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 countries	amod
18	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 see	obj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 suffer	aux
20	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stayed	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 suffer	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 remain	mark
23	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 suffer	advcl
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 longer	advmod
25	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 remain	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	I		month	with my wife and family	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=Location
2	see	to-infinitive	my eager desire not said here	foreign countries			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus
3	suffer	would	my eager desire	me			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	remain	to-infinitive	my eager desire not said here			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	desire		my				nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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