The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 2

To the amazement of all present, her neck, instead of being as smooth and white as her face, was a mass of scars.

What happens: be, amaze · To what, where: mass, present

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 amazement	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 amazement	det
3	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mass	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 present	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 present	det
6	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 amazement	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 neck	punct
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 neck	nmod:poss
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 amazement	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 smooth	punct
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	15 smooth	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 smooth	cop
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 smooth	case
15	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 amazement	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 white	cc
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 smooth	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 face	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 face	nmod:poss
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 smooth	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 amazement	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 mass	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mass	det
24	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 scars	case
26	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mass	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 mass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund		as Amina's face; smooth property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	is a	past	a mass	to the amazement of all present and Amina's neck; of scars	tree rules
4	amaze		all present		nom amazement «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 Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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