The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 46

Still, he thought about them night and day, and ceased to care about anything else in the world, and was sick to the end of his life with longing for that beautiful vision.

Who acts: sun · What happens: think, cease, care, be, long

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 night	compound
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 day	cc
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 night	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ceased	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ceased	cc
12	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 care	mark
14	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ceased	xcomp
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 anything	case
16	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 care	obl
17	else	else	ADV	_	16 anything	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 anything	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sick	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sick	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sick	cop
24	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ceased	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 end	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 end	det
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sick	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 life	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 life	nmod:poss
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 end	nmod
31	with	with	SCONJ	_	32 longing	mark
32	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sick	advcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 vision	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 vision	det
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 vision	amod
36	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 longing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	sun	still; night		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cease	past	sun not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	care	to-infinitive	sun not said here		about anything	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about anything=Stimulus
4	is	past		to the end of sun's life	sick property	tree rules
5	long	gerund			for that beautiful vision	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for vision=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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