The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 91
The girl’s joy was great, and so was her parents’ next day when they found the sack full of gold pieces.
Who acts: joy, parents, girl · What happens: be, find, joy · To what, where: parents, sack
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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, parents, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 great | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 great | cop |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 parents | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 parents | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 parents | advmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 parents | cop |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 parents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 great | conj |
| 13 | ’ | ' | ADV | _ | 15 day | advmod |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 parents | nmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 found | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 day | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sack | det |
| 20 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sack | amod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pieces | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pieces | compound |
| 24 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 full | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girl's joy | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the girl's joy not said here | girl's parents | day | tree rules | |||
| 3 | find | past | parents = parent | the sack | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Topic | ||||
| 4 | joy | the girl | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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