The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 77
Before this happened, however, the king’s son in passing the mother’s house had seen Lizina sitting sewing in the parlour, and had been dazzled by her beauty.
Who acts: this, son, beauty · What happens: happen, pass, see, sit, sew, dazzle · To what, where: house, son, parlour
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, son, beauty), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 happened | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 son | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 passing | mark |
| 12 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 son | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mother | det |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passing | obj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 19 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | obj |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 seen | xcomp |
| 21 | sewing | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 sitting | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 parlour | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 parlour | det |
| 24 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sewing | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dazzled | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dazzled | cc |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 dazzled | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 29 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 seen | conj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 beauty | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 32 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dazzled | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | gerund | the king's son not said here | the mother's house | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | the king's son | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | the king's son not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sew | gerund | the king's son not said here | the parlour | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in parlour=Destination | ||||
| 6 | dazzle | past · perfect · passive | Lizina's beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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