The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 92

“Must all my happy days come to an end like this?”

Who acts: happy days · What happens: come · To what, where: end

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (happy days), 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	_	7 come	punct
2	Must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 all	aux
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 days	det:predet
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 days	nmod:poss
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 this	case
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 come	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	my happy days				to a end	like this	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location

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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