The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 86

They would have been quite happy except for one thing: they had no children to play with, and as they were now old people they did not find that watching the children of their neighbours at all made up to them for having one of their own.

Who acts: Slaves, children, watching · What happens: be, have, play, not find, watch, make up · To what, where: children, all, Slaves, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Slaves, children, watching), 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	6 happy	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 happy	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 happy	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 happy	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	except	except	ADP	_	10 thing	case
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 thing	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 thing	nummod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happy	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	advcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 play	mark
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	17 play	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 find	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 find	cc
21	as	as	ADP	_	26 people	case
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 people	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 people	cop
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 people	advmod
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 find	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 find	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 find	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 find	advmod
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 happy	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 made	mark
32	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 made	csubj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 children	det
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 watching	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 neighbours	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 neighbours	nmod:poss
37	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 children	nmod
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 all	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 watching	obl
40	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 find	ccomp
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 made	compound:prt
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 made	obl
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 having	mark
45	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 made	advcl
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 having	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 own	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 own	nmod:poss
49	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 one	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	Slaves = slave					except one thing; happy property	tree rules
2	have	past	Slaves = slave	no children					tree rules
3	play	to-infinitive	no children not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Slaves = slave				now	as old people	tree rules
5	not find	past · do-support	Slaves = slave						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	watch	gerund		the children of Slaves's neighbours		all			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
7	make up	participle	watching		Slaves = slave				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
8	have	gerund	watching not said here	one of Slaves's own					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 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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