The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 9
The joy of the Court was great.
Who acts: joy · What happens: be, joy · To what, where: Court
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy), 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 joy | det |
| 2 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 great | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Court | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Court | det |
| 5 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joy | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | cop |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the joy of the Court | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | joy | the Court | 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 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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