More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 123
How the others were thunderstruck when he showed his proofs!
Who acts: king · What happens: thunderstruck, show, proof · To what, where: others, proofs
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 thunderstruck | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 others | det |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thunderstruck | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thunderstruck | aux:pass |
| 5 | thunderstruck | thunderstruck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 showed | parataxis |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 showed | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 showed | nsubj |
| 8 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 proofs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | proofs | proof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 showed | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thunderstruck | past · passive | the others | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | past | king | king's proofs | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent proof=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | proof | king | nom proof «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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