The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 167
You can fancy how great was the rejoicing when the news was spread abroad that the terrible monster was dead.
Who acts: You, terrible monster · What happens: fancy, be, spread · To what, where: great rejoicing, news
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, terrible monster), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fancy | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancy | aux |
| 3 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 great | advmod |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rejoicing | amod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rejoicing | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rejoicing | det |
| 8 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fancy | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 spread | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 news | det |
| 11 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spread | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spread | aux:pass |
| 13 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fancy | advcl |
| 14 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 13 spread | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 dead | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 monster | det |
| 17 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 monster | amod |
| 18 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spread | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | can | You | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the great rejoicing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spread | past · passive | the news | abroad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the terrible monster | dead property | tree rules |
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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