The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 35
It was a sight surprising to behold.
Who acts: claw, sight · What happens: be, surprise · To what, where: sight
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (claw, sight), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sight | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sight | det |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | surprising | surprise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sight | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 behold | case |
| 7 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 5 surprising | discourse |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | claw | a sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | surprise | gerund | a sight not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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