The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 3

He had no peace or comfort at all, and really hardly knew how to bear it.

Who acts: man · What happens: have, know, bear · To what, where: peace, all, comfort

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 peace	det
4	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 comfort	cc
6	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 peace	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 peace	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knew	cc
11	really	really	ADV	_	13 knew	advmod
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	13 knew	advmod
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 bear	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bear	mark
16	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knew	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bear	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	no peace or comfort	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient
2	know	past				hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	bear	to-infinitive		comfort			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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