The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 39

The rock Ahtola became so grand and Maie so grand that all the sea-urchins and herring were lost in wonderment.

Who acts: rock · What happens: become, lose · To what, where: sea urchins, wonderment

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock), 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 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
3	Ahtola	Ahtola	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rock	appos
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 grand	advmod
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grand	cc
8	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 grand	nsubj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 grand	advmod
10	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grand	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 lost	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 urchins	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 urchins	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 urchins	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sea	punct
16	urchins	urchin	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lost	nsubj:pass
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 herring	cc
18	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 urchins	conj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lost	aux:pass
20	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 grand	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 wonderment	case
22	wonderment	wonderment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lost	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the rock					grand property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	lose	past · passive		all sea urchins and herring		wonderment			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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