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title: Great was the joy at Court amongst all, with the exception of the qu… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 34

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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.

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**Who acts:** exception · **What happens:** be, burst, except · **To what, where:** Great joy, Court, queen

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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.

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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:pg7439:49:34
# text = 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.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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