The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 9
At the sight of her Houarn stopped, dazzled by her beauty.
What happens: stop, dazzle, sight · To what, where: sight, Houarn
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Houarn | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Houarn | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dazzled | punct |
| 9 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stopped | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 beauty | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dazzled | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the sight of Groac’h's Houarn | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | |||||
| 2 | dazzle | participle | by Groac’h's beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | sight | Groac’h's Houarn | 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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