The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 88

He repeated them joyfully, for he had always longed to bring the old man back and to make his last days happy.

Who acts: Rosimond · What happens: repeat, long, bring, make · To what, where: words, old man

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 repeated	nsubj
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 repeated	obj
4	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	2 repeated	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 longed	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 longed	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 longed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 longed	aux
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 longed	advmod
10	longed	long	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 repeated	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bring	mark
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 longed	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	12 bring	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 make	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 bring	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 days	nmod:poss
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 days	amod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	obj
23	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 make	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	Rosimond	words = word			joyfully property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
2	long	past · perfect	Rosimond				always property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rosimond not said here		the old man			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
4	make	to-infinitive	Rosimond not said here			day	happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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