The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 91
This turn of affairs threw the standers-by into great surprise.
Who acts: turn · What happens: throw · To what, where: standers
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 turn | det |
| 2 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 affairs | case |
| 4 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | nmod |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 standers | det |
| 7 | standers | stander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 threw | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 standers | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 surprise | case |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 surprise | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 surprise | amod |
| 12 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | this turn of affairs | the standers | by great surprise | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stander=Theme by surprise=Destination |
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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