The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 30

It weighs upon and is killing me, as the general fash of being the wife of the Lord of Burleigh, Burleigh House by Stamford Town, was too much for the village maiden espoused by that peer.

Who acts: reputation, general fash · What happens: weigh upon, kill, be, espouse · To what, where: me, village maiden

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reputation, general fash), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 weighs	nsubj
2	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	2 weighs	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 killing	cc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 killing	aux
6	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 weighs	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 killing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fash	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 fash	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fash	det
11	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fash	amod
12	fash	fash	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 killing	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 wife	case
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 wife	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wife	det
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fash	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Lord	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Lord	det
19	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wife	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Burleigh	case
21	Burleigh	Burleigh	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Lord	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 House	punct
23	Burleigh	Burleigh	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 House	compound
24	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wife	appos
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 Town	case
26	Stamford	Stamford	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Town	compound
27	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 much	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Town	punct
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 much	cop
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fash	acl:relcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 maiden	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 maiden	det
34	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 maiden	compound
35	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 much	nmod
36	espoused	espouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 maiden	acl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 peer	case
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 peer	det
39	peer	peer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 espoused	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 weighs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weigh upon	present	reputation			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	kill	present · progressive	reputation not said here	me	as the general fash	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Duration as fash=Attribute
3	is	gerund			of the wife; of the Lord of Burleigh	tree rules
4	is	past	the general fash not said here		by Stamford Town; for the village maiden; much property	tree rules
5	espouse	participle		the village maiden not said here	by that peer	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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