The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 30

You may imagine their joy and delight when they realised that their weary struggle was ended, and their utter contentment as they clasped each other by the hand.

Who acts: You, Sylvain, weary struggle · What happens: imagine, realise, be, clasp, joy, struggle · To what, where: joy, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Sylvain, weary struggle), 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 imagine	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 joy	nmod:poss
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imagine	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 delight	cc
7	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joy	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 realised	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 realised	nsubj
10	realised	realise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 ended	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 struggle	nmod:poss
13	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 struggle	amod
14	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ended	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ended	cop
16	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 realised	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 contentment	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 contentment	cc
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 contentment	nmod:poss
20	utter	utter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 contentment	amod
21	contentment	contentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imagine	parataxis
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 clasped	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 clasped	nsubj
24	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 contentment	advcl
25	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	24 clasped	obj
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 each	fixed
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hand	det
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clasped	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imagine	may	You	Sylvain's joy and delight		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot joy=Theme
2	realise	past	Sylvain			tree rules
3	is	past	Sylvain's weary struggle		ended property	tree rules
4	clasp	past	Sylvain	each	by the hand	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
5	joy		Sylvain			nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
6	struggle		Sylvain			nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=agent
7	content		Sylvain			nom contentment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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