The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 5

He intended it to be the day of his death, but in spite of that, and of the fact that he was leaving his wife and children behind him, he felt almost cheerful.

Who acts: sun · What happens: intend, be, leave, feel, die, spite · To what, where: length, spite, day, wife, that

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 intended	nsubj
2	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 intended	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	7 day	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 day	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 intended	obl:unmarked
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 death	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 death	nmod:poss
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spite	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 spite	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 spite	case
14	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 intended	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 spite	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 felt	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 felt	cc
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 fact	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fact	det
21	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 felt	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 leaving	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 leaving	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 leaving	aux
25	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 fact	acl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leaving	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 children	cc
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wife	conj
30	behind	behind	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 children	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fact	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 felt	nsubj
34	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 intended	conj
35	almost	almost	ADV	_	36 cheerful	advmod
36	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 felt	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 intended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	intend	past	sun	length	spite of that		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is a	to-infinitive		the day		of sun's death	tree rules
3	leave	past · progressive	sun	sun's wife and children behind man			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
4	feel	past	sun			of the fact; cheerful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	die		sun				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
6	spite			that			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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 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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