The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 109

They often lamented to each other that they had no one of their own to inherit all the wealth that they possessed.

Who acts: children · What happens: lament, have, inherit, possess · To what, where: one, wealth

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lamented	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 lamented	advmod
3	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 lamented	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lamented	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 own	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 inherit	mark
16	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 one	acl:relcl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 wealth	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wealth	det
19	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 inherit	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 possessed	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 possessed	nsubj
22	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 inherit	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lamented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lament	past	children = child		to each; often property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	children = child	no one of children's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	inherit	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	all wealth		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme
4	possess	past	children = child			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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