The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 70

By the trellis of grape vines she met the gnome, who was so much embarrassed at the sight of her that she became aware of his confusion while he was still quite a long way off.

Who acts: princess, gnome, sight · What happens: meet, be, become, sight, confuse · To what, where: gnome, sight, long way, princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, gnome, 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 trellis	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trellis	det
3	trellis	trellis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 vines	case
5	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vines	compound
6	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trellis	nmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gnome	det
10	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 embarrassed	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 embarrassed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 embarrassed	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 embarrassed	advmod
16	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gnome	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 sight	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sight	det
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 embarrassed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sight	nmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 became	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 embarrassed	advcl
25	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 became	xcomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 confusion	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 confusion	nmod:poss
28	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 aware	obl
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 way	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 way	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 way	cop
32	still	still	ADV	_	36 way	advmod
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 way	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 way	det
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 way	amod
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	xcomp
37	off	off	ADV	_	36 way	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	princess	the gnome			by the trellis of grape vines	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gnome=Co-Agent
2	is	past	the gnome		the sight of princess		embarrassed property	tree rules
3	become	past	princess				aware property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is a	past	gnome	a long way		still	off property	tree rules
5	sight			princess				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	confuse		sight					nom confusion «state 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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