The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 89
The queen was greatly surprised at the sight of anything so splendid in such a lonely place, and took it in her hands to examine it closely.
Who acts: queen · What happens: be, take, examine, sight · To what, where: sight, sword, hands, anything
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | cop |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 anything | case |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 sight | nmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 splendid | advmod |
| 12 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 anything | amod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 place | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 16 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 place | amod |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 splendid | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hands | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hands | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 took | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 examine | mark |
| 26 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 took | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 examine | obj |
| 28 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 26 examine | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the queen | the sight of anything | greatly, surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | sword | queen's hands | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in hand=Location | ||||
| 3 | examine | to-infinitive | sword | closely property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | anything | nom sight «cognition 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 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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