The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 38

Days passed by, and at last the rajah became so possessed with the thought of the holy man that he determined if possible to get him all to himself.

Who acts: last, rajah · What happens: pass by, become, possess, determine, get, think · To what, where: Days, holy man, rajah

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, rajah), 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	Days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj:pass
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	2 passed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 became	cc
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 last	case
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 became	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rajah	det
9	rajah	rajah	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 last	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 possessed	advmod
12	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 became	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 thought	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thought	det
15	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 possessed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	nmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 determined	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 determined	nsubj
22	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 man	acl:relcl
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 possible	mark
24	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 determined	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 get	mark
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 determined	ccomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 get	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 him	det
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 himself	case
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 get	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pass by	participle · passive		Days			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	become	past	last				tree rules
3	possess	participle	last not said here			with the thought of the holy man	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	determine	past	rajah	the holy man not said here		possible property	tree rules
5	get	to-infinitive	rajah not said here	rajah	rajah		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	think			the holy man			nom thought «cognition 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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