The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 51
And this was hardly to be wondered at, as his mind was full of the princess’s pretty looks and words.
Who acts: mind, pretty, gnome · What happens: wonder, be, look, mind · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, pretty, gnome), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wondered | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wondered | aux:pass |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 7 wondered | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wondered | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wondered | aux:pass |
| 7 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 wondered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 full | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 full | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 full | cop |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wondered | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 looks | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pretty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 princess | case |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looks | nsubj |
| 20 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 full | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 words | cc |
| 22 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 looks | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · passive | this | hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | gnome's mind | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | present | the princess's pretty | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | mind | gnome | nom mind «cognition 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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