The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 5

It is a great grief to me to leave you all.

Who acts: enemy · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: great grief, me, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grief	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grief	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grief	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grief	amod
5	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 grief	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 leave	mark
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grief	acl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 leave	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 you	nmod:unmarked
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	enemy	a great grief	me				tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive		you					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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