The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 54
There was joy and gladness in the palace, as may be imagined, and the King did not know how to show enough honour and respect to Ritter Red.
Who acts: joy, King · What happens: be, imagine, not know, show · To what, where: enough honour, Ritter Red
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. 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), 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 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gladness | cc |
| 5 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joy | conj |
| 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 | _ | 13 imagined | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 imagined | mark |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 imagined | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 imagined | aux:pass |
| 13 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 know | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | parataxis |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 show | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 show | mark |
| 23 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 know | xcomp |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 honour | amod |
| 25 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 show | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 respect | cc |
| 27 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 honour | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Red | case |
| 29 | Ritter | Ritter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Red | compound |
| 30 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 show | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | joy and gladness in the palace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | imagine | may · passive | joy and gladness in the palace not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF» | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | the King not said here | enough honour and respect | Ritter Red | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent honour=Topic to red=Recipient |
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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