The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 26
Ah, how glad the king was to hear that!
Who acts: king · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 glad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 glad | advmod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hear | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hear | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hear | mark |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 hear | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | hear 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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