The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 49

I loved and watched you day and night-- You were my joy, my one delight.’

Who acts: I, You, my · What happens: love, watch, be, delight · To what, where: you, joy

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, You, my), 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 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 watched	cc
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loved	conj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 watched	obj
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 night	cc
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	conj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 joy	punct
10	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 joy	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 joy	cop
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 joy	nmod:poss
13	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 delight	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 delight	nmod:poss
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 delight	nummod
17	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 joy	appos
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 delight	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 delight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	love	past	I			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	watch	past	I not said here	you	day	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	is a	past	You	my joy		tree rules
4	delight		my			nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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