The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 9

The nurse went, and was struck with amazement at the sun-like radiance of his face; she salaamed and said: “O youth! welcome! the lady of the garden calls you; come!”

Who acts: nurse, girl, lady, face · What happens: go, strike, salaam, say, call, come · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, girl, lady, face), 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 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 struck	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 struck	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 struck	aux:pass
7	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 amazement	case
9	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 struck	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	15 radiance	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 radiance	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 like	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 sun	punct
14	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 radiance	amod
15	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 struck	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 face	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 face	nmod:poss
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 radiance	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 salaamed	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 salaamed	nsubj
21	salaamed	salaam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 youth	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 youth	punct
26	O	o	INTJ	_	27 youth	discourse
27	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 calls	parataxis
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 youth	punct
29	welcome	welcome	INTJ	_	36 calls	discourse
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 lady	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lady	det
32	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 calls	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 garden	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 garden	det
35	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lady	nmod
36	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 calls	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	parataxis
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the nurse			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	strike	past · passive	the nurse not said here		with amazement; at the like radiance of nurse's face	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: with amazement=Instrument at radiance=Patient
3	salaam	past	girl			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: express	past	the nurse not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	call speech: assert in a quote	present	the lady of the garden	you		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	come in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	radiate		nurse's face			nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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