The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 43

But really, what with anxiety about his riches and being weary of everything, and always desiring something he had not, he never knew a moment’s real happiness.

Who acts: Badi · What happens: be, desire, not have, not know · To what, where: something, real happiness

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badi), 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	_	4 what	cc
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 anxiety	case
6	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 riches	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 riches	nmod:poss
9	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 anxiety	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 weary	cc
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 weary	cop
12	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 what	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 everything	case
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 weary	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 desiring	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 desiring	cc
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 desiring	advmod
18	desiring	desire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 weary	advcl
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 desiring	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 something	acl:relcl
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 had	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knew	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 knew	advmod
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 moment	det
28	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 happiness	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 moment	case
30	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 happiness	amod
31	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 knew	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			of everything; weary property	tree rules
2	desire	gerund		something	always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
3	not have	past	Badi			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not know	past	Badi	a moment's real happiness		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus

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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