The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 30

There were such rejoicings when she went in to her parents that it seemed as if they would never come to an end.

Who acts: such rejoicings, cure, it, rejoicings · What happens: be, go in, seem, not come · To what, where: end

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such rejoicings, cure, it, rejoicings), 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 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rejoicings	amod
4	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 went	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	advcl
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 parents	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 parents	nmod:poss
11	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 seemed	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	advcl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 come	advmod
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seemed	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 end	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	such rejoicings	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go in	past	cure			to cure's parents	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to parent=Initial_Location
3	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	not come a condition, not said to happen	would	rejoicings = rejoicing		to a end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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