The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 74

In his weakness this intelligence had such an effect on the king that the physicians feared he would become as ill as before.

Who acts: intelligence, physicians, physician · What happens: have, fear, become · To what, where: effect, weakness, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intelligence, physicians, physician), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 weakness	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 weakness	nmod:poss
3	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 intelligence	det
5	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 effect	det:predet
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 effect	det
9	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 effect	nmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 feared	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 physicians	det
15	physicians	physician	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 feared	nsubj
16	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 king	acl:relcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 become	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 become	aux
19	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 feared	ccomp
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 ill	advmod
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 become	xcomp
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 before	case
23	before	before	ADV	_	21 ill	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	this intelligence	such effect	king's weakness	on the king	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
2	fear	past	the physicians	the king not said here			tree rules
3	become	would	physician			ill property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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