The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 132

The sight quite dazzled Martin and Michael, who emptied all the provisions that remained out of their bags, and heaped them up instead with handfuls of copper.

Who acts: sight, Martin, provisions · What happens: dazzle, empty, remain, heap up · To what, where: Martin, provisions, bags

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Martin, provisions), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sight	det
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dazzled	nsubj
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 dazzled	advmod
4	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dazzled	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Michael	cc
7	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Martin	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 emptied	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 emptied	nsubj
10	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Martin	acl:relcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 provisions	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 provisions	det
13	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 emptied	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 remained	nsubj
15	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 provisions	acl:relcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 bags	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 bags	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bags	nmod:poss
19	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 remained	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heaped	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heaped	cc
22	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dazzled	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heaped	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 heaped	compound:prt
25	instead	instead	ADV	_	27 handfuls	case
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 handfuls	case
27	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 heaped	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 copper	case
29	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 handfuls	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dazzled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dazzle	past	the sight	Martin and Michael			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus martin=Experiencer
2	empty	past	Martin and Michael	all provisions			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent provision=Source
3	remain	past	all provisions		provisions's bags		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bag=Location
4	heap up	past	the sight not said here	provisions = provision		instead handfuls of copper	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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