The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 79
In the joy of his heart he gave a great feast to the whole world, and the whole world came and rejoiced with him for a whole week.
Who acts: sire, whole world · What happens: give, come, rejoice, joy · To what, where: great feast, whole world, joy, heart
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sire, whole world), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 joy | det |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joy | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feast | amod |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 world | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rejoiced | cc |
| 23 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 came | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rejoiced | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 week | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 week | det |
| 28 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 week | amod |
| 29 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rejoiced | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | sire | a great feast | the whole world | the joy of sire's heart | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent feast=Theme to world=Recipient | ||
| 2 | come | past | the whole world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rejoice | past | the whole world not said here | week | with world | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | joy | sire's heart | 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 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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