The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 79
Such beautiful things had never been seen in the island, and the nurse and waiting women stood bewildered by all the magnificence.
Who acts: magnificence · What happens: not see, wait, bewilder · To what, where: Such beautiful things, island, women, nurse
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magnificence), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 seen | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 island | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bewildered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bewildered | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nurse | det |
| 14 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bewildered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waiting | cc |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 nurse | conj |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 waiting | obj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bewildered | aux:pass |
| 19 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seen | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 magnificence | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 magnificence | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 magnificence | det |
| 23 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bewildered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect · passive | Such beautiful things | the island | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | all magnificence not said here | women | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bewilder | past · passive | all magnificence | the nurse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=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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