The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 34

But, my lord, when you stood before me, it was agony to my heart, filled as it was with thoughts of you, to appear to your eyes under so monstrous a form.

Who acts: lord, control · What happens: stand, be, fill, appear · To what, where: agony

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, control), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 stood	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lord	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lord	nmod:poss
4	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lord	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 stood	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 agony	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 agony	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 agony	cop
14	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 heart	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heart	nmod:poss
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 agony	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 filled	punct
19	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 agony	acl
20	as	as	ADP	_	24 thoughts	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thoughts	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 thoughts	cop
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 thoughts	case
24	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 filled	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 thoughts	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 appear	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 appear	mark
29	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 eyes	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eyes	nmod:poss
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 appear	obl
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 monstrous	case
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 monstrous	advmod
35	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 appear	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 form	det
37	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 monstrous	nsubj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	my lord		before me		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location
2	is a	past	control	agony		to my heart	tree rules
3	fill	participle		agony not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	control			as thoughts; of you	tree rules
5	appear	to-infinitive				to your eyes	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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