The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 30
There was great joy on both sides, and they were happy for many days.
Who acts: great joy, sisters · What happens: be · To what, where: sides
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great joy, sisters), 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 | 4 joy | amod |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sides | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sides | det |
| 7 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happy | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 happy | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happy | cop |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 happy | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | great joy | both sides; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | sisters = sister | day | happy 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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