The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 28
The cloud was amazed at the sight, and cried in wonder: “Is the rock, then, mightier than I?
What happens: amaze, cry, be · To what, where: cloud, sight, wonder, rock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 cloud | det |
| 2 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amazed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 amazed | aux:pass |
| 4 | amazed | amaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amazed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 amazed | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wonder | case |
| 12 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 rock | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 rock | punct |
| 15 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rock | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rock | det |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rock | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 mightier | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mightier | punct |
| 21 | mightier | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 cried | xcomp |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 I | case |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 mightier | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amaze | past · passive | the cloud | the sight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | wonder | mighty property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wonder=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the rock | tree rules |
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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