The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 65

She was most lovely, and I was so amazed at the perfection of her beauty that I stood with senses lost, and did not know if she were real or a dream.

Who acts: trace, I, beauty · What happens: be, stand, lose, not know, perfect · To what, where: perfection, senses, beauty

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trace, I, beauty), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lovely	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lovely	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 lovely	advmod
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 amazed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 amazed	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 amazed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 amazed	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 amazed	advmod
10	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lovely	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 perfection	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 perfection	det
13	perfection	perfection	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 amazed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 beauty	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beauty	nmod:poss
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 perfection	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stood	nsubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 beauty	acl:relcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 senses	case
21	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	obl
22	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 senses	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 know	cc
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 lovely	parataxis
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 real	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 real	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 real	cop
31	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 know	ccomp
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 dream	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 dream	det
34	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 real	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lovely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	trace			lovely property	tree rules
2	is	past	I		the perfection of trace's beauty	amazed property	tree rules
3	stand	past	trace's beauty			with senses	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lose	participle		senses not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not know	past · do-support					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	trace			real property	tree rules
7	perfect			trace's beauty			nom perfection «state transitive»: of=patient

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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