The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 20
So there was great gladness in the palace, but no one was more glad than the King’s daughter.
Who acts: great gladness, one · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great gladness, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gladness | amod |
| 5 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gladness | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glad | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 glad | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glad | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | cop |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 glad | amod |
| 15 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 was | advcl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 daughter | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glad | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | great gladness in the palace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | no one | than the King's daughter; glad 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 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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