The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 26
They all came on deck, and what was their surprise when they recognised the person who had bargained about a passage the previous day with the captain.
Who acts: friends, person · What happens: come, be, recognise, bargain · To what, where: deck, surprise, person
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, person), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 deck | case |
| 5 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 surprise | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 surprise | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 surprise | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 surprise | cop |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 11 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | parataxis |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 recognised | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 recognised | nsubj |
| 14 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 surprise | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recognised | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bargained | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bargained | aux |
| 19 | bargained | bargain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 person | acl:relcl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 passage | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 passage | det |
| 22 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bargained | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bargained | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 captain | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 captain | det |
| 28 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 day | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | friends = friend | deck | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | friends's surprise | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | recognise | past | friends = friend | the person | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bargain | past · perfect | the person | day | about a passage | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about passage=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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