The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 48
But what was her surprise when she saw that each tear-drop was a round and shining pearl.
Who acts: surprise, Tephany, tear drop · What happens: be, see, shine, surprise · To what, where: round pearl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surprise, Tephany, tear drop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:2960): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 what | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | cop |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nsubj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 pearl | mark |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 drop | det |
| 11 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drop | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tear | punct |
| 13 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pearl | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pearl | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pearl | det |
| 16 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pearl | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shining | cc |
| 18 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 round | conj |
| 19 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tephany's surprise | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Tephany | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | each tear drop not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | each tear drop | a round pearl | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | surprise | Tephany | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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