English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 34
Great was the joy at Court amongst all, with the exception of the queen and her club-footed daughter, who were ready to burst with envy.
Who acts: exception · What happens: be, burst, except · To what, where: Great joy, Court, queen
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (exception), 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 joy | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 joy | det |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Court | case |
| 6 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | nmod |
| 7 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Court | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exception | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 exception | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 exception | det |
| 12 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 queen | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exception | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 daughter | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 footed | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 club | punct |
| 20 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 daughter | amod |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exception | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ready | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 ready | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ready | cop |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 exception | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 burst | mark |
| 27 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ready | xcomp |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 envy | case |
| 29 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 burst | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great joy and the exception of the queen and queen's footed daughter | Court amongst all | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the exception of the queen and queen's footed daughter | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burst | to-infinitive | the exception of the queen and queen's footed daughter not said here | with envy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | except | the queen | nom exception «cognition 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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