The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 26
At this the king was more delighted than anyone could have believed.
What happens: be, believe · To what, where: anyone
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 king | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delighted | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 delighted | advmod |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 believed | mark |
| 9 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 believed | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 believed | aux |
| 12 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 delighted | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | at this king; delighted property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | believe | could · perfect · passive | anyone | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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