The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 42
There was great rejoicing in the court and all through the country over the solving of the riddle, and because now no more kings and princes would be killed.
What happens: be, rejoice, kill, solve · To what, where: court, more kings, riddle
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | xcomp |
| 4 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 was | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 court | det |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rejoicing | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 country | cc |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 country | advmod |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 court | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 solving | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 solving | det |
| 15 | solving | solving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rejoicing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 riddle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 riddle | det |
| 18 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 solving | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 killed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 killed | cc |
| 21 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 now | case |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 killed | obl |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 kings | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 kings | amod |
| 25 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 princes | cc |
| 27 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kings | conj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 killed | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 killed | aux:pass |
| 30 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | great property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | gerund | the court and the country | over the solving of the riddle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | kill | would · passive | more kings and princes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | solve | the riddle | nom solving «act 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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