The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 22
If he was dumbfounded, the merchant, who was ushered into his presence soon after sunrise, was much more so.
What happens: dumbfound, usher, be · To what, where: Fear, merchant, presence
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 dumbfounded | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dumbfounded | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dumbfounded | aux:pass |
| 4 | dumbfounded | dumbfound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 merchant | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchant | det |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dumbfounded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ushered | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ushered | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ushered | aux:pass |
| 11 | ushered | usher | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 presence | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 presence | nmod:poss |
| 14 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ushered | obl |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 ushered | advmod |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 sunrise | case |
| 17 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ushered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dumbfounded | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 more | cop |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 so | advmod |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 dumbfounded | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dumbfounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dumbfound | past · passive | Fear | the merchant obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | usher | past · passive | the merchant | Fear's presence | sunrise | soon property | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | is | past | more property | tree rules |
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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