The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 24

‘I know I am a thousand times better off here than I ever was in my life before, but notwithstanding, I have a great longing to go home, in spite of all your kindness to me.

Who acts: I · What happens: know, be, notwithstand, have, go, spite · To what, where: great longing, spite, kindness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 better	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 better	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thousand	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 better	obl:unmarked
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 know	ccomp
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 better	compound:prt
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 know	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	18 life	case
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 life	nsubj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 life	advmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 life	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 life	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod:poss
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 here	obl
19	before	before	ADV	_	18 life	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
22	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 have	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 notwithstanding	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 longing	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 longing	amod
28	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 longing	acl
31	home	home	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spite	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 spite	case
34	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 kindness	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 kindness	det:predet
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 kindness	nmod:poss
38	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spite	nmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 me	case
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 kindness	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	I		here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	I			time	good property	tree rules
3	is	past	I			ever	than my life; before property	tree rules
4	notwithstand	gerund	I not said here					tree rules
5	have	present	I	a great longing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient
6	go	to-infinitive	I not said here	a great longing not said here	spite of your kindness to me		home property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location
7	spite			your kindness to me				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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