The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 118
The struggle had been hard, but Alonzo had his reward next day in the joy and relief with which Julia greeted him.
Who acts: struggle, Alonzo, Julia · What happens: be, have, greet, reward · To what, where: reward, joy, Alonzo
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (struggle, Alonzo, Julia), 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 struggle | det |
| 2 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hard | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hard | cop |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 8 | Alonzo | Alonzo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 reward | nmod:poss |
| 11 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 joy | det |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 relief | cc |
| 18 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 joy | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 greeted | obl |
| 21 | Julia | Julia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 greeted | nsubj |
| 22 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 relief | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 greeted | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the struggle | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Alonzo | Alonzo's reward | the joy and relief | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient | ||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | Julia | Alonzo | with relief | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | reward | Alonzo | nom reward «event transitive»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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