The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 121
Imagine his astonishment at seeing a Princess so beautiful and so richly dressed, and withal of so noble and dignified a mien, that he took her to be a divinity.
Who acts: you, astonishment, farm · What happens: imagine, see, dress, take, be, astonish · To what, where: astonishment, Princess, divinity
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, astonishment, farm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29021:665): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 3 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obj |
| 4 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 seeing | mark |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 astonishment | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Princess | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dressed | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 richly | advmod |
| 12 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 13 dressed | advmod |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 beautiful | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mien | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mien | cc |
| 16 | withal | withal | ADV | _ | 23 mien | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mien | case |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 noble | advmod |
| 19 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mien | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dignified | cc |
| 21 | dignified | dignified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 noble | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mien | det |
| 23 | mien | mien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beautiful | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 took | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 took | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | nsubj |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 beautiful | advcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 divinity | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 divinity | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 divinity | det |
| 32 | divinity | divinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 took | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | farm's astonishment | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot astonishment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | farm's astonishment not said here | a Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle | farm's astonishment not said here | richly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | farm | Princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | farm not said here | a divinity | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | astonish | farm | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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