The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 113

For if she had liked the King ill before, she liked him far worse now that he had caused her son to disappear so suddenly.

Who acts: mother, king · What happens: like, cause, disappear · To what, where: king, son

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 liked	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 liked	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	aux
5	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 liked	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ill	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ill	nsubj
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 liked	xcomp
9	before	before	ADV	_	5 liked	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 liked	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 liked	nsubj
12	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 liked	obj
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 worse	advmod
15	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 liked	xcomp
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 liked	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 caused	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 caused	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 caused	aux
20	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 liked	ccomp
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 son	nmod:poss
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 caused	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 disappear	mark
24	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 caused	xcomp
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 suddenly	advmod
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 disappear	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	like a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	mother				before, ill property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	like	past	mother	king		now	bad property	tree rules
3	cause	past · perfect	king		mother's son			tree rules
4	disappear	to-infinitive	king not said here				suddenly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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