The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 15

I have but one son whom I love very dearly, that is why he is called Prince Darling.

Who acts: I, that · What happens: have, love, be, call · To what, where: one son, doubt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 son	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 son	nummod
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	conj
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 love	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 love	nsubj
8	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 son	acl:relcl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 dearly	advmod
10	dearly	dearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 love	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 why	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 why	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 why	cop
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 love	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 called	aux:pass
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 why	advcl:relcl
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Darling	compound
19	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	love	present	I	one son	dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	is	present	that		why property	tree rules
4	call	present · passive		doubt		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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