The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 126

Ah! how delightful it was there, how beautiful!

Who acts: wood · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood), 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 delightful	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 delightful	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 delightful	advmod
4	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 there	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 delightful	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beautiful	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 beautiful	advmod
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 delightful	conj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 delightful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wood					there 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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