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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 29

Still his heart was heavy, and he felt uneasy, though he could not have told why; and the night before he was to start he went to the children’s palace to take leave of his son and daughter.

Who acts: you, heart, king · What happens: still, be, feel, not tell, go, take · To what, where: palace, leave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, heart, king), 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

nmod:possnsubjcopccomppunctccnsubjconjxcomppunctmarknsubjauxadvmodauxconjadvmodpunctccdetoblmarknsubjcopmarkadvclnsubjccompcasedetnmod:posscaseoblmarkadvclobjcasenmod:possnmodccconjpunctrootStillVERBhisPRONheartNOUNwasAUXheavyADJ,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONfeltVERBuneasyADJ,PUNCTthoughSCONJhePRONcouldAUXnotPARThaveAUXtoldVERBwhyADV;PUNCTandCCONJtheDETnightNOUNbeforeSCONJhePRONwasAUXtoPARTstartVERBhePRONwentVERBtoADPtheDETchildrenNOUN’sPARTpalaceNOUNtoPARTtakeVERBleaveNOUNofADPhisPRONsonNOUNandCCONJdaughterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1StillstillVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 heartnmod:poss
3heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing5 heavynsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 heavycop
5heavyheavyADJDegree=Pos1 Stillccomp
6,,PUNCT_9 feltpunct
7andandCCONJ_9 feltcc
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 feltnsubj
9feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 heavyconj
10uneasyuneasyADJDegree=Pos9 feltxcomp
11,,PUNCT_17 toldpunct
12thoughthoughSCONJ_17 toldmark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 toldnsubj
14couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 toldaux
15notnotPARTPolarity=Neg17 toldadvmod
16havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf17 toldaux
17toldtellVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part9 feltconj
18whywhyADVPronType=Int17 toldadvmod
19;;PUNCT_22 nightpunct
20andandCCONJ_22 nightcc
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 nightdet
22nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing1 Stillobl
23beforebeforeSCONJ_27 startmark
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 startnsubj
25wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 startcop
26totoPART_27 startmark
27startstartVERBVerbForm=Inf1 Stilladvcl
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 wentnsubj
29wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 startccomp
30totoADP_34 palacecase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 childrendet
32childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur34 palacenmod:poss
33’s'sPART_32 childrencase
34palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing29 wentobl
35totoPART_36 takemark
36taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf29 wentadvcl
37leaveleaveNOUNNumber=Sing36 takeobj
38ofofADP_40 soncase
39hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs40 sonnmod:poss
40sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing37 leavenmod
41andandCCONJ_42 daughtercc
42daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing40 sonconj
43..PUNCT_1 Stillpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1stillimperativeyou not said herenightvn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2ispastking's heartheavy propertytree rules
3feelpastkinguneasy propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4not tell speech: assertcould · perfectkingvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5ispastkingstart propertytree rules
6gopastkingthe children's palacevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
7taketo-infinitiveking not said hereleave of king's son and daughtervn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme

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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