The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 36
The Court received the new King with joyful acclamations which would have delighted him at any other time, but all his thoughts were full of Fairer-than-a-Fairy.
Who acts: Court, thoughts · What happens: receive, delight, be, think · To what, where: new King, joyful acclamations
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Court, thoughts), 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 Court | det |
| 2 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 King | amod |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 acclamations | case |
| 8 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 acclamations | amod |
| 9 | acclamations | acclamation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 received | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 delighted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 delighted | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 delighted | aux |
| 13 | delighted | delight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 acclamations | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 delighted | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 time | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 delighted | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 full | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 full | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 thoughts | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 full | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 full | cop |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 received | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Fairer | case |
| 27 | Fairer | Fairer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fairer | punct |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 Fairy | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 than | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Fairy | det |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 a | punct |
| 33 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Court | the new King | with joyful acclamations | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||
| 2 | delight | would · perfect · passive | joyful acclamations | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Court's thoughts | of Fairer; than a Fairy; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think | Court | nom thought «cognition 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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