The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 90

The other thing I have to ask is, that you will never cease to watch over our children, who will soon become your greatest joy.”

Who acts: I, other thing, children, your · What happens: have, ask, not be, watch, become, joy · To what, where: other thing, greatest joy

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other thing, children, your), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cease	nsubj:outer
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cease	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cease	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 cease	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 cease	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cease	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 cease	advmod
14	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 watch	mark
16	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cease	xcomp
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 children	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 children	nmod:poss
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 watch	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 become	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 become	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 become	aux
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 become	advmod
24	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 children	acl:relcl
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 joy	nmod:poss
26	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 joy	amod
27	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 become	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cease	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 cease	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	the other thing not said here		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the other thing not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	the other thing		cease property	tree rules
4	watch	to-infinitive	the other thing not said here		over our children	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over child=Location
5	become	future	our children	your greatest joy	soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	joy		your			nom joy «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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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