The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 4

“You will quite agree with me, my dear children, that my great age makes it impossible for me to look after my affairs of state as carefully as I once did.

Who acts: You, great age, king · What happens: agree, make, look, do · To what, where: dear children, that

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, great age, king), 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	_	5 agree	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 agree	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 agree	aux
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 agree	advmod
5	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 agree	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 children	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 children	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 children	amod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 agree	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 makes	obj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 age	nmod:poss
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 age	amod
16	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 makes	nsubj
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 agree	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 makes	obj
19	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 makes	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 impossible	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 impossible	advcl
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 affairs	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 affairs	nmod:poss
26	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 look	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 state	case
28	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 affairs	nmod
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 carefully	advmod
30	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	23 look	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 did	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 did	nsubj
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 did	advmod
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 look	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 agree	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree in a quote	future	You	my dear children		with king	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent
2	make in a quote	present	my great age	that		impossible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset that=Beneficiary it=Product
3	look in a quote	to-infinitive	my great age not said here		after my affairs of state	carefully property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	do in a quote	past	king			once property	vn act-114-1 «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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