The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 52
But, alas! the joy of liberty lasted but a short time.
Who acts: joy · What happens: last, joy · To what, where: liberty
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 lasted | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 joy | punct |
| 3 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 6 joy | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 alas | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 joy | det |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lasted | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 liberty | case |
| 8 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 joy | nmod |
| 9 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 lasted | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | the joy of liberty | time | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | joy | liberty | nom joy «feeling 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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/52/