The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 36
One can imagine what joy there was when the two reached home.
Who acts: One, joy, two · What happens: imagine, be, reach
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, joy, two), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 was | obj |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | ccomp |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 two | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | advcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 reached | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can | One | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | joy | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | the two | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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