The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 91
At the sight of him the three farmers stood still with astonishment.
Who acts: three farmers · What happens: stand, sight · To what, where: sight
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three farmers), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sight | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmers | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 farmers | nummod |
| 8 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 stood | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 astonishment | case |
| 12 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the three farmers | the sight of sight | still | with astonishment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at sight=Location | ||
| 2 | sight | sight | nom sight «cognition 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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