More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 10
When she entered every one was surprised at so beautiful a face and form dressed in so rich and rare a dress; but the young lord soon recognised his beautiful sweetheart, and would dance with none but her the whole evening.
Who acts: cook, one, young lord · What happens: enter, be, dress, recognise, dance · To what, where: beautiful face, form, rich, beautiful sweetheart
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, one, young lord), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surprised | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprised | cop |
| 7 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 entered | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 face | amod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 face | det |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 form | cc |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 face | conj |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 form | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 rich | case |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 rich | advmod |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dressed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rare | cc |
| 20 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rich | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dress | det |
| 22 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rich | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 recognised | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 recognised | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lord | det |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lord | amod |
| 27 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 recognised | nsubj |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 recognised | advmod |
| 29 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sweetheart | amod |
| 32 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 recognised | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dance | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dance | cc |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 dance | aux |
| 36 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 recognised | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 none | case |
| 38 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 36 dance | obl |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 evening | cc |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 evening | nmod:poss |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 evening | det |
| 42 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 evening | amod |
| 43 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 none | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | cook | a beautiful face and form | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | every one | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle | form not said here | rich and a dress | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | recognise | past | the young lord | lord's beautiful sweetheart | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweetheart=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | dance | would | the young lord not said here | with none | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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