The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 90
At length the hole was large enough for him to peep through, and the sight was one to strike him dumb with amazement.
Who acts: hole, Becasigue, sight · What happens: be, peep, strike · To what, where: length, one, Becasigue
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, Becasigue, sight), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 large | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hole | det |
| 4 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 large | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 large | cop |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 large | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 peep | mark |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 peep | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 peep | mark |
| 11 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 large | advcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADV | _ | 11 peep | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 one | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sight | det |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | cop |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 large | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 strike | mark |
| 20 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 one | acl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 strike | obj |
| 22 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 strike | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 amazement | case |
| 24 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dumb | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hole | length | enough, large property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | peep | to-infinitive | Becasigue | through property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the sight | one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | strike | to-infinitive | Becasigue | dumb property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
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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