More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 29
He was dazed, as you may fancy, with wonderment and affright, and he couldn't open his mouth to utter a word.
Who acts: you, bread · What happens: daze, fancy, not open, utter · To what, where: bread, wonderment, mouth, word
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bread), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dazed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dazed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dazed | daze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fancy | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 fancy | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 fancy | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fancy | aux |
| 8 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dazed | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wonderment | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 wonderment | case |
| 11 | wonderment | wonderment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fancy | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 affright | cc |
| 13 | affright | affright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wonderment | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 open | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 open | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 open | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 open | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 open | advmod |
| 19 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dazed | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 open | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 utter | mark |
| 23 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 open | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 word | det |
| 25 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 utter | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daze | past · passive | bread | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fancy | may | you | wonderment and affright | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wonderment=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not open | could | bread | bread's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | to-infinitive | bread not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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