The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 19

The joy of such a meeting was beyond words.

Who acts: joy · What happens: be, joy · To what, where: meeting

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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), 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 joy	det
2	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 words	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 meeting	case
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 meeting	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meeting	det
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 joy	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 words	cop
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	9 words	case
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 words	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the joy of such meeting					beyond words	tree rules
2	joy			such meeting					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.

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