The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 40

It was not that he thought there were too many children, for his life had seemed more full of joy since they appeared, but now it came to the point he did not know how he was to feed them.

Who acts: It, many children, life, children, head, Stan · What happens: not be, be, have, seem, appear, come · To what, where: point, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, many children, life, children), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 thought	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 thought	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 were	expl
8	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	ccomp
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 children	amod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 were	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	parataxis
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	ccomp
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 full	amod
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 had	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 joy	case
21	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 full	obl
22	since	since	SCONJ	_	24 appeared	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 appeared	nsubj
24	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 full	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 came	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 point	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 point	det
32	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 point	acl:relcl
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 feed	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 feed	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 feed	cop
40	to	to	PART	_	41 feed	mark
41	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 know	ccomp
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 feed	iobj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be speech: other	past	It					think property	tree rules
2	be	past	many children			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Stan's life					full property	tree rules
4	seem	past	Stan's life not said here						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	appear	past	children = child						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	head			the point	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to point=Initial_Location
7	not know	past · do-support	Stan	the point not said here					tree rules
8	is	past	Stan		children = child			feed 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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