The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 7

He regrets deeply that he is unable to make the request in person, but he has been ill and is too weak to move.”

Who acts: lion · What happens: regret, be, make, move · To what, where: request

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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 regrets	nsubj
2	regrets	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	2 regrets	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 unable	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 unable	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 unable	cop
7	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 regrets	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 unable	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 request	det
11	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 person	case
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 request	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ill	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 ill	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ill	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ill	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 ill	cop
19	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 regrets	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 weak	cc
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 weak	cop
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 weak	advmod
23	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ill	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 move	mark
25	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 weak	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 regrets	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 regrets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	regret	present	lion		deeply property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	lion		unable property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	lion not said here	the request	in person	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset request=Product
4	is	present · perfect	lion		ill property	tree rules
5	is	present	lion not said here		weak property	tree rules
6	move	to-infinitive	lion not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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