The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 2

He had both lands and money, but, though he was so well off, one thing was wanting to complete his happiness; he had no children.

Who acts: farmer, one thing · What happens: have, be, want, complete · To what, where: lands, happiness, children

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, one thing), 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	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lands	det
4	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 money	cc
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lands	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wanting	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 wanting	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 but	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 off	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 off	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 off	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 off	advmod
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 off	advmod
15	off	off	ADV	_	20 wanting	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 off	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 thing	nummod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wanting	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wanting	aux
20	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 complete	mark
22	complete	complete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanting	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 happiness	nmod:poss
24	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 complete	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 children	det
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	farmer	both lands and money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
2	is	past	farmer		off, well property	tree rules
3	want	past · progressive	one thing			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	complete not said to happen	to-infinitive	one thing not said here	farmer's happiness		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Eventuality
5	have	past	farmer	no children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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 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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