The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 35
The king was overwhelmed with astonishment, but the girl had taken heart again.
What happens: overwhelm, take · To what, where: king, girl
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overwhelmed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overwhelmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 astonishment | case |
| 6 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overwhelmed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 taken | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 overwhelmed | conj |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 taken | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overwhelmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overwhelm | past · passive | the king | with astonishment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | the girl | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination |
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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