The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 48
It makes me ill to think of it!’
Who acts: tree · What happens: make, think · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ill | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 think | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | tree | me | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | tree not said here | of tree | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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