The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 35

The peasant and his wife began to lament bitterly that Peter had run away in this fashion just when they were to have so much joy of him, and after they had spent so much on his education.

Who acts: peasant, Peter, parents · What happens: begin, lament, run away, have, spend, joy · To what, where: fashion, much joy, education, Peter

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, Peter, parents), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wife	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peasant	conj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lament	mark
8	lament	lament	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	8 lament	advmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 run	mark
11	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 run	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 run	aux
13	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 began	ccomp
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 run	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 fashion	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 fashion	det
17	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 run	obl
18	just	just	ADV	_	23 have	advmod
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 have	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 run	advcl
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 joy	amod
26	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 joy	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spent	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 spent	cc
31	after	after	SCONJ	_	34 spent	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 spent	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 spent	aux
34	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 began	parataxis
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	34 spent	advmod
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 education	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 education	nmod:poss
39	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spent	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the peasant and Peter's wife				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lament	to-infinitive	the peasant and Peter's wife not said here			bitterly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	run away	past · perfect	Peter		this fashion	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fashion=Trajectory
4	have	past	parents = parent	much joy of Peter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient
5	spend	past · perfect	parents = parent			on Peter's education goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on education=Goal
6	joy			Peter			nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	educate		Peter				nom education «act 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 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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