The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 1

Being the youngest, he was naturally his mother’s favourite; but this did not blind her to his weaknesses, and she foresaw that some day he would suffer much pain through falling in love.

Who acts: he, she · What happens: be, foresee, suffer, fall · To what, where: favourite, pain, love

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (he, she), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 youngest	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youngest	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 blind	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 favourite	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 favourite	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 favourite	cop
7	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	11 favourite	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 favourite	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 mother	case
11	favourite	favourite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 youngest	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 blind	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 blind	cc
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 blind	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blind	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 blind	advmod
17	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 blind	nsubj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 weaknesses	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 weaknesses	nmod:poss
21	weaknesses	weakness	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blind	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 foresaw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 foresaw	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 foresaw	nsubj
25	foresaw	foresee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blind	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 suffer	mark
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 suffer	obl:unmarked
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 suffer	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 suffer	aux
31	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 foresaw	ccomp
32	much	much	ADV	_	33 pain	advmod
33	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 suffer	obl
34	through	through	SCONJ	_	35 falling	mark
35	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 suffer	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 love	case
37	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 falling	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund					young property	tree rules
2	is a	past	he	his mother's favourite			naturally property	tree rules
3	foresee	past	she					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	suffer	would	he	pain		day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	fall	gerund	he not said here		love			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location

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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