The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 67
Great was the delight of the mother at her youngest son’s good fortune.
What happens: be · To what, where: Great delight
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 delight | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delight | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 delight | det |
| 4 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delight | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 fortune | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 son | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 son | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fortune | amod |
| 14 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great delight | of the mother at mother's youngest son's good fortune | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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