The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 202

Great was the rejoicing of all the people when they saw him and his wife; his father and his mother embraced them both, and there was feasting in the palace for three days and three nights.

Who acts: trees, Great rejoicing · What happens: be, see, embrace, feast · To what, where: Great rejoicing, rejoicing, trees, palace

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, Great rejoicing), 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rejoicing	amod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rejoicing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rejoicing	det
4	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 embraced	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 people	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rejoicing	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 people	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wife	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 him	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 father	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 embraced	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mother	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 father	conj
22	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 embraced	obj
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	22 embraced	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 embraced	conj
29	feasting	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 was	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 palace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feasting	obl
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 days	case
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 days	nummod
35	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 feasting	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 nights	cc
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 nights	nummod
38	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 days	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 embraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Great rejoicing			of all people	tree rules
2	see	past	trees = tree	rejoicing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	embrace	past	the Great rejoicing	trees = tree				tree rules
4	be	past	the Great rejoicing not said here		there			tree rules
5	feast	gerund	the Great rejoicing not said here		the palace	day		vn dine-39.5 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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