The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 33
But the moment they went inside they were struck dumb with rage at the splendour of everything, and their faces grew white and cold with fury when they saw the dress which Hábogi had prepared for his bride—a dress that glittered like sunbeams dancing upon ice.
Who acts: moment, faces, sisters, dress, sunbeams · What happens: go, strike, grow, see, prepare, glitter · To what, where: sisters, splendour, dress, ice
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (moment, faces, sisters, dress), 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 | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 struck | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | aux:pass |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | advcl |
| 10 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 struck | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 rage | case |
| 12 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 splendour | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 splendour | det |
| 15 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 everything | case |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 splendour | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 grew | cc |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 faces | nmod:poss |
| 21 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grew | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cold | cc |
| 25 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 white | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fury | case |
| 27 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grew | obl |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 saw | advmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 grew | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dress | det |
| 32 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | obj |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | Hábogi | Hábogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 prepared | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 prepared | aux |
| 36 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 dress | acl:relcl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 bride | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 bride | nmod:poss |
| 39 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 prepared | obl |
| 40 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 dress | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 dress | det |
| 42 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bride | conj |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 glittered | nsubj |
| 44 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 dress | acl:relcl |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 46 sunbeams | case |
| 46 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 glittered | obl |
| 47 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 sunbeams | acl |
| 48 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 49 ice | case |
| 49 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 dancing | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the moment | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | strike | past · passive | sisters = sister | the splendour of everything | with rage; dumb property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rage=Instrument | |||
| 3 | grow | past | sisters's faces | with fury; white property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | sisters = sister | the dress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the dress | for Hábogi's bride and a dress | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for bride=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | glitter | past | a dress | like sunbeams | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | dance | gerund | sunbeams not said here | ice | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ice=Location |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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