The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 86
Must I also be made to know that the King of the Gold Mines ceased to love me as soon as he lost sight of me?
Who acts: I, King · What happens: make, know, cease, love, lose, sight · To what, where: I, me, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 ceased | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ceased | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Mines | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mines | det |
| 13 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mines | compound |
| 14 | Mines | Mines | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | nmod |
| 15 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 love | mark |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ceased | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 love | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 love | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 lost | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lost | nsubj |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 soon | advcl |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 sight | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | cease | past | the King of the Gold Mines | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | love | to-infinitive | the King of the Gold Mines not said here | me | soon property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | lose | past | King | sight of me | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | sight | me | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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