The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 27

Everybody rejoiced at the news except poor Helena, to whom it was a fearful blow, for at the bottom of her heart she had always believed her lover to be true.

Who acts: Everybody, news, heart · What happens: rejoice, be, believe · To what, where: news, fearful blow, Helena

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, news, heart), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 rejoiced	nsubj
2	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 news	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 news	det
5	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rejoiced	obl
6	except	except	ADP	_	8 Helena	case
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Helena	amod
8	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 news	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whom	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 whom	case
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 rejoiced	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 blow	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 blow	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 blow	det
15	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blow	amod
16	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whom	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bottom	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 bottom	case
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 bottom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bottom	det
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rejoiced	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 heart	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heart	nmod:poss
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bottom	nmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 believed	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 believed	aux
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 believed	advmod
28	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 heart	acl:relcl
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lover	nmod:poss
30	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 believed	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 true	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 true	cop
33	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lover	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past	Everybody		the news except poor Helena	for the bottom of Helena's heart	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	news	a fearful blow			tree rules
3	believe	past · perfect · passive	Helena's heart not said here	Helena		always property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme lover=Eventuality
4	is	to-infinitive	Helena's heart not said here			true 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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