The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 44

But I ended by ceasing to covet that gift more than any of the others I have seen, for, like the gift of pleasing, it cannot really give satisfaction.

Who acts: I, gift · What happens: end, cease, covet, see, not give · To what, where: gift, others, satisfaction

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, gift), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 ended	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ended	nsubj
3	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 ceasing	mark
5	ceasing	cease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ended	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 covet	mark
7	covet	covet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ceasing	xcomp
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 gift	det
9	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covet	obj
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 covet	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 any	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 more	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 others	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 others	det
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 any	nmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 others	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gift	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 gift	case
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gift	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 gift	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gift	det
24	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ceasing	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 pleasing	case
26	pleasing	pleasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gift	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 give	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 give	advmod
31	really	really	ADV	_	32 give	advmod
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ended	conj
33	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	end	past	I			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	cease	gerund	I not said here		for the gift of pleasing	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	covet	to-infinitive	I not said here	that gift		vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gift=Theme
4	see	present · perfect	I	the others not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus
5	not give	can	gift	satisfaction		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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