The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 44

I have a great longing to go there, so that when I think of it I am very sad.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, go, think, be · To what, where: great longing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (I), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 longing	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 longing	amod
5	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 longing	acl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 think	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 think	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 think	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sad	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sad	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 sad	advmod
20	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 think	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a great longing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient
2	go	to-infinitive	I not said here	a great longing not said here	there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	present	I			of longing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I			sad property	tree rules

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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