The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 31

I have always lived in seclusion, and for the last two years I have wished for nothing better.

Who acts: I · What happens: live, wish · To what, where: seclusion

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 lived	advmod
4	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 seclusion	case
6	seclusion	seclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wished	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wished	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 years	det
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 years	amod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wished	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wished	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wished	aux
16	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lived	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 nothing	case
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 wished	obl
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 wished	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	I			seclusion		always property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in seclusion=Location
2	wish	present · perfect	I				year	for nothing; good property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for nothing=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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