Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 11

But the king spoke first, and what he said so astonished her that the explanation and reproach with which her tongue was thrilling fled from it at a stroke, and she could only sit staring and bewildered and tongue-tied.

Who acts: king, explanation, heart · What happens: speak, say, thrill, flee, sit, stare · To what, where: tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, explanation, heart), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 spoke	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 spoke	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 said	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 astonished	advmod
12	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	xcomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 astonished	nsubj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 thrilling	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 explanation	det
16	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thrilling	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 reproach	cc
18	reproach	reproach	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 explanation	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 tongue	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 tongue	nsubj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tongue	nmod:poss
22	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 explanation	nmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 thrilling	aux
24	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 astonished	advcl
25	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 thrilling	xcomp
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fled	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 stroke	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 stroke	det
30	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fled	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sit	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sit	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sit	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 sit	aux
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 sit	advmod
36	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 fled	conj
37	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 sit	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bewildered	cc
39	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 staring	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 tied	cc
41	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tied	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 tongue	punct
43	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 bewildered	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the king		first property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	king		astonished property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	thrill	past · progressive	the explanation with heart's tongue and reproach			tree rules
4	flee	participle	the explanation with heart's tongue and reproach not said here	tongue	at a stroke	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location
5	sit	could	heart			tree rules
6	stare	gerund	heart not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	bewilder	past	heart not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	tie	participle	heart not said here			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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