The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 37

The king had suffered much pain in his absence, thinking that if the Man-eater ate Ciccu, it would be all his fault.

Who acts: king, Man eater, pain · What happens: suffer, think, eat, be, absent · To what, where: much pain, absence, Ciccu, fault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Man eater, pain), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 suffered	aux
4	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pain	amod
6	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffered	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 absence	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 absence	nmod:poss
9	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thinking	punct
11	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 suffered	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 fault	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 ate	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eater	det
15	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eater	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Man	punct
17	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ate	nsubj
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fault	advcl
19	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ate	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ate	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fault	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fault	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 fault	cop
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 fault	det:predet
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fault	nmod:poss
26	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thinking	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 suffered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	suffer	past · perfect	the king	much pain	king's absence	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	gerund	the king not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat a condition, not said to happen	past	the Man eater	Ciccu		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ciccu=Patient
4	is a	would	pain	Ciccu's fault		tree rules
5	absent		king			nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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