The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 52
She looked so beautiful that, at the sight of her, the book dropped from his hand, and he stood up speechless.
Who acts: lad, book · What happens: look, drop, stand up, sight · To what, where: sight, lad
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, book), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 dropped | mark |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sight | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sight | det |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dropped | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sight | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 book | det |
| 14 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dropped | nsubj |
| 15 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dropped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stood | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 stood | compound:prt |
| 24 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stood | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | lad | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | drop | past | the book | the sight of lad | from book's hand | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent at sight=Destination from hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | stand up | past | book | speechless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sight | lad | 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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