The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 2
So bewildered was I, and so dazzled with the splendours of everything I saw, that I stood like a statue, unable to move.
Who acts: I · What happens: bewilder, be, dazzle, see, stand, move · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 bewildered | advmod |
| 2 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 I | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bewildered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dazzled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dazzled | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 dazzled | advmod |
| 8 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bewildered | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 splendours | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 splendours | det |
| 11 | splendours | splendour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dazzled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 everything | case |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 splendours | nmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 everything | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 stood | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bewildered | parataxis |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 statue | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 statue | det |
| 22 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 unable | punct |
| 24 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stood | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 move | mark |
| 26 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 unable | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bewildered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewilder | past | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dazzle | participle | I not said here | with the splendours of everything | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | stand | past | I | like a statue | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | move | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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