The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 40
At last, in despair, he looked round, and saw to his amazement that both the city and palace had vanished completely.
Who acts: head, city · What happens: look round, see, vanish, amaze · To what, where: amazement
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (head, city), 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 | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 despair | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 amazement | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 15 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 vanished | obj |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 city | det |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 vanished | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 palace | cc |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 city | conj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 vanished | aux |
| 23 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 amazement | acl:relcl |
| 24 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 23 vanished | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | head | at last despair; round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at despair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | head not said here | to head's amazement | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past · perfect | both city and palace | head's amazement | completely property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | amaze | head | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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