The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 27

He was so much fascinated by the sight of all the beautiful things which peeped through the door that he scarcely noticed that he had lost the prize he had won; and he did not remember there was such a thing as a hen in the world when he beheld the Sister of the Sun sleeping on a bed before him.

Who acts: sight, beautiful things, boy, Sister · What happens: fascinate, peep, notice, lose, win, not remember · To what, where: boy, prize, thing, Sister, bed, beautiful things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, beautiful things, boy, Sister), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fascinated	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fascinated	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 fascinated	advmod
5	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sight	det
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fascinated	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 things	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 things	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 things	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sight	nmod
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 peeped	nsubj
15	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 things	acl:relcl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 door	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peeped	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 noticed	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 noticed	nsubj
21	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	22 noticed	advmod
22	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 peeped	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 lost	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lost	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lost	aux
26	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 noticed	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 prize	det
28	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lost	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 won	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 won	aux
31	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 prize	acl:relcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 remember	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 remember	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 remember	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 remember	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 remember	advmod
37	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fascinated	parataxis
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 was	expl
39	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 remember	ccomp
40	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	42 thing	det:predet
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 thing	det
42	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 remember	obj
43	as	as	ADP	_	45 hen	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 hen	det
45	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 remember	obl
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 world	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 world	det
48	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hen	nmod
49	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 beheld	advmod
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 beheld	nsubj
51	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fascinated	advcl
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Sister	det
53	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 beheld	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 Sun	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Sun	det
56	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Sister	nmod
57	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 Sister	acl
58	on	on	ADP	_	60 bed	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 bed	det
60	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 sleeping	obl
61	before	before	ADP	_	62 him	case
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 sleeping	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fascinated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fascinate	past · passive	the sight of all beautiful things	boy				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	peep	past	all beautiful things				through the door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through door=Theme
3	notice	past	boy				scarcely property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	lose	past · perfect	boy	the prize				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality
5	win	past · perfect	boy	the prize not said here				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality
6	not remember	past · do-support	boy	such thing			as a hen in the world	tree rules
7	be	past			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	behold	past	boy	the Sister of the Sun				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus
9	sleep	gerund	the Sister of the Sun not said here		a bed	before boy		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	sight			all beautiful things				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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