The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 110
There was now joy in all the palace and over the whole country on account of the beautiful prince; but no one knew that the queen’s first-born was a lindorm, and lay in the wild forest.
Who acts: joy, one, queen · What happens: be, know, bear, lay, account · To what, where: queen, lindorm, wild forest, beautiful prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, one, queen), 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 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 palace | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 country | cc |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 country | amod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 account | case |
| 15 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 country | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 prince | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prince | amod |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 account | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 knew | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 knew | cc |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 lindorm | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 queen | det |
| 27 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lindorm | nsubj |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 queen | case |
| 29 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 born | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 first | punct |
| 31 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 queen | acl |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 lindorm | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 lindorm | det |
| 34 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knew | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lay | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 lay | cc |
| 37 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 knew | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 forest | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 forest | det |
| 40 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 forest | compound |
| 41 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lay | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | joy in all palace and the whole country on account of the beautiful prince | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | bear | participle | the queen not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the queen | a lindorm | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lay | infinitive | no one not said here | the wild forest | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in forest=Destination | ||||
| 6 | account | the beautiful prince | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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