The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 72

He said that he did like to be with them, for they had enough to live on, and he was very comfortable there; but he longed to go home, for his father and mother were alive, and he had a great desire to see them again.

Who acts: Halvor, heads, father · What happens: say, like, be, have, live on, long · To what, where: great desire, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, heads, father), 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 like	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	10 them	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 them	cop
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 had	case
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 live	mark
17	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 live	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 comfortable	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 comfortable	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 comfortable	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 comfortable	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 comfortable	advmod
24	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 had	conj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 comfortable	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 longed	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 longed	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 longed	nsubj
29	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 longed	xcomp
32	home	home	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 alive	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 alive	mark
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 alive	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 mother	cc
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 father	conj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 alive	cop
40	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 longed	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 had	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 had	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 desire	det
46	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 desire	amod
47	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 had	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 see	mark
49	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 had	advcl
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 see	obj
51	again	again	ADV	_	49 see	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Halvor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like	past · do-support	Halvor					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here				with heads = head	tree rules
4	have	past	heads = head				enough property	tree rules
5	live on	to-infinitive	heads = head not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	Halvor		there		comfortable property	tree rules
7	long	past	Halvor					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	Halvor's father and mother				alive property	tree rules
10	have	past	Halvor	a great desire				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient
11	see	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here	heads = head		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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