The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 52
His joy was great when he saw that they were all well, for the youngest did her best not to appear sad.
Who acts: joy, King, thoughts, youngest, best · What happens: be, see, do, not appear, joy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (joy, King, thoughts, youngest), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 joy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 great | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 great | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 great | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 well | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 well | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 well | cop |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 well | advmod |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 appear | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 well | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 did | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 did | det |
| 16 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 appear | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 appear | nmod:poss |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 appear | nsubj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 appear | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 appear | mark |
| 22 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 appear | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King's joy | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | thoughts = thought | all, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | past | youngest | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not appear | to-infinitive | best | sad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | joy | King | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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