The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 126

And the world would be a great deal better if men, in their greed, did not seek to snatch every thing for themselves, instead of leaving something as a thankoffering to the giver of the blessings.

Who acts: world, men · What happens: be, not seek, snatch, leave, thankoffer · To what, where: thing, something

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, men), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 better	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 world	det
3	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 better	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 better	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 better	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 better	nsubj
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 seek	mark
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seek	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 greed	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 greed	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 greed	nmod:poss
15	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 men	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 men	punct
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seek	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 seek	advmod
19	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 better	csubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 snatch	mark
21	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seek	xcomp
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 thing	det
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 snatch	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 themselves	case
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 snatch	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 leaving	punct
27	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 leaving	mark
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 instead	fixed
29	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 seek	advcl
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 leaving	obj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 thankoffering	mark
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thankoffering	det
33	thankoffering	thankoffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 leaving	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 giver	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 giver	det
36	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thankoffering	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 blessings	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 blessings	det
39	blessings	blessing	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 giver	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	the world		good property	tree rules
2	not seek a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	men and dishes's greed			tree rules
3	snatch not said to happen	to-infinitive	men and dishes's greed not said here	every thing	for dishes = dish	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for themselves=Beneficiary
4	leave	gerund	men and dishes's greed not said here	something		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
5	thankoffer	gerund	men and dishes's greed not said here		to the giver of the blessings	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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