The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 86

His desire was to go back to his mother and his native village, and to spend his time in cultivating the land.

Who acts: desire, Rosimond · What happens: be, spend, cultivate, desire · To what, where: land

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire, Rosimond), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 desire	nmod:poss
2	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 village	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 village	nmod:poss
12	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 village	amod
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spend	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spend	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 spend	mark
17	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 time	nmod:poss
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spend	obj
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 cultivating	mark
21	cultivating	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 spend	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 land	det
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cultivating	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rosimond's desire			to Rosimond's mother and Rosimond's native village; go property	tree rules
2	spend	to-infinitive			time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cultivate	gerund		the land			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Product
4	desire		Rosimond				nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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