Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 12

The king was glad, and he and his people were more hopeful than they had ever been before.

Who acts: king, people · What happens: be, have

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	cop
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hopeful	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hopeful	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hopeful	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 people	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 people	nmod:poss
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 he	conj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hopeful	cop
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 hopeful	advmod
13	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glad	conj
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hopeful	advcl
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 before	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 before	cop
19	before	before	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king		glad property	tree rules
2	is	past	King		hopeful property	tree rules
3	have	past	people			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle		ever	before 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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