The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 11
No one can imagine the joy of the whole family at the sight of all this wealth.
Who acts: one · What happens: imagine, joy, sight · To what, where: joy, whole family, wealth
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 joy | det |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imagine | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 family | amod |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 joy | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sight | det |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 family | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wealth | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 wealth | det:predet |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 wealth | det |
| 17 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sight | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can | no one | the joy of the whole family at the sight of all wealth | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot joy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | joy | the whole family at the sight of all wealth | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | sight | all wealth | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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