The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 72

‘That is why I have come,’ answered the king; and suddenly his heart seemed to fail him and he felt that he could not go on.

Who acts: That, I, heart · What happens: be, come, answer, seem, fail, feel · To what, where: king, heart

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I, heart), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 why	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 why	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 why	cop
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 come	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 answered	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 seemed	advmod
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heart	nmod:poss
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fail	mark
20	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seemed	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fail	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 felt	nsubj
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seemed	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 go	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 go	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 go	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 go	advmod
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 felt	ccomp
30	on	on	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			why property	tree rules
2	come	present · perfect	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past			the king		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
4	seem	past	king's heart			suddenly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	fail	to-infinitive	king's heart not said here	heart			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
6	feel	past	heart				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not go on	could	heart				vn function-105.2.1 «NP 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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