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title: The girl’s joy was great, and so was her parents’ next day when they… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl’s joy was great, and so was her parents’ next day when they found the sack full of gold pieces. Who acts: joy, parents, girl. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 91

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The girl’s joy was great, and so was her parents’ next day when they found the sack full of gold pieces.

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**Who acts:** joy, parents, girl · **What happens:** be, find, joy · **To what, where:** parents, sack

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, parents, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:15:91
# text = The girl’s joy was great, and so was her parents’ next day when they found the sack full of gold pieces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the girl's joy |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the girl's joy *not said here* | girl's parents |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | parents *= parent* | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Topic |
| 4 | **joy** |  | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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