The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 78

How beautiful it must be to sit under that tree with the student, but that he could not do; he had to content himself with the key-hole and be happy there!

Who acts: light · What happens: be, sit, not do, have, content · To what, where: tree, light

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 beautiful	advmod
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 must	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 beautiful	aux
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 must	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sit	mark
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 be	xcomp
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 student	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 student	det
13	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 do	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 do	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 do	advmod
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sit	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beautiful	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 content	mark
25	content	content	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 content	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 hole	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hole	det
29	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hole	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 key	punct
31	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 content	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 happy	cc
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 happy	cop
34	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 content	conj
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 happy	advmod
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	infinitive					tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive			that tree with the student		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
3	not do	could	light				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	light				tree rules
5	content	to-infinitive	light not said here	light		with the key hole	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
6	is	infinitive	light not said here		there	happy property	tree rules

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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