The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 23

He did not once think how very uncomfortable he should be all those three years, but only that he should be able, by means of the purse, to have all sorts of things he had been obliged to do without; so he joyfully put the purse in his pocket and went on his way.

Who acts: Don · What happens: not think, be, mean, have, oblige, do · To what, where: three years, sorts, Don, purse, pocket, way

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 uncomfortable	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 uncomfortable	advmod
8	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 think	ccomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 years	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 years	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 years	cop
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 years	det:predet
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 years	det
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 uncomfortable	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 able	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 able	cc
18	only	only	ADV	_	23 able	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 able	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 able	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 able	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	cop
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 uncomfortable	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 means	case
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 purse	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 purse	det
29	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 means	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 have	mark
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 means	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 sorts	det
34	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 have	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 things	case
36	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sorts	nmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 obliged	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 obliged	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 obliged	aux:pass
40	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 things	acl:relcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 do	mark
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 obliged	xcomp
43	without	without	ADP	_	42 do	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 put	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	48 put	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 put	nsubj
47	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	48 put	advmod
48	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	parataxis
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 purse	det
50	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 put	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 pocket	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 pocket	nmod:poss
53	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 put	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 went	cc
55	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 put	conj
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 way	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 way	nmod:poss
58	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 went	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	Don			once property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	should	Don	all three years			tree rules
3	is	should	Don			able property	tree rules
4	mean	present				of the purse	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	have	to-infinitive		all sorts of things			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
6	oblige	past · perfect · passive		Don			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
7	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	put	past	Don	the purse	Don's pocket	joyfully property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent purse=Theme in pocket=Destination
9	go	past	Don not said here		Don's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
10	sort			things			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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