The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 52

They had only one child, a son, who was their pride and joy, and for his sake they were ready to work hard all day long, and never felt tired or discontented with their lot.

Who acts: Brauns, son · What happens: have, be, work, not feel, discontent · To what, where: one child, pride

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brauns, son), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 child	nummod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 son	det
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 child	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pride	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 pride	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pride	cop
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pride	nmod:poss
13	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 joy	cc
15	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pride	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ready	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ready	cc
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 sake	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sake	nmod:poss
20	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ready	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ready	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ready	cop
23	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 work	mark
25	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ready	xcomp
26	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 work	advmod
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 work	obl:unmarked
29	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 work	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 felt	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 felt	cc
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 felt	advmod
33	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
34	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 felt	xcomp
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 discontented	cc
36	discontented	discontent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 tired	conj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 lot	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 lot	nmod:poss
39	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 discontented	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Brauns = braun	one child and a son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	is a	past	a son	Brauns's pride and joy			tree rules
3	is	past	Brauns = braun			for son's sake; ready property	tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	Brauns = braun not said here		day	hard, long property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not feel	past	Brauns = braun not said here			tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	discontent	participle	Brauns = braun not said here			with Brauns's lot	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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