The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 9

And so it went on for eight days, till the King began to think that this fatal tail must be full of quicksilver--it was never still for a moment.

Who acts: tail, King, fatal tail · What happens: go on, begin, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, King, fatal tail), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 began	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 think	mark
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 full	mark
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 tail	det
18	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tail	amod
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 full	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 full	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 full	cop
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 think	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 quicksilver	case
24	quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 full	obl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 moment	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 moment	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 moment	cop
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 still	advmod
29	still	still	ADV	_	32 moment	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 moment	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 moment	det
32	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 full	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	tail	day		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the King			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the King not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	must	this fatal tail		of quicksilver; full property	tree rules
5	is	past	tail	for a moment; still		tree rules

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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