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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 2

When he on his part told her that he was the prince of Dilaram, the astonishment of the young people was unbounded to find that they, who had been betrothed without ever having seen one another, should have actually met for the first time in such strange circumstances.

Who acts: prince, astonishment · What happens: tell, be, find, betroth, see, meet · To what, where: princess, prince, people, one, young people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, astonishment), 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

advmodnsubjcasenmod:possnmodadvcliobjmarknsubjcopdetccompcaseoblpunctdetnsubjcasedetamodnmodcopconjmarkcsubjmarknsubjpunctnsubj:passauxaux:passccompmarkadvmodauxadvclobjfixedpunctauxauxadvmodcasedetamodoblcaseamodamodnmodpunctrootWhenADVhePRONonADPhisPRONpartNOUNtoldVERBherPRONthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXtheDETprinceNOUNofADPDilaramPROPN,PUNCTtheDETastonishmentNOUNofADPtheDETyoungADJpeopleNOUNwasAUXunboundedADJtoPARTfindVERBthatSCONJtheyPRON,PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXbeenAUXbetrothedVERBwithoutSCONJeverADVhavingAUXseenVERBoneNUManotherDET,PUNCTshouldAUXhaveAUXactuallyADVmetVERBforADPtheDETfirstADJtimeNOUNinADPsuchADJstrangeADJcircumstancesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int6 toldadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 toldnsubj
3ononADP_5 partcase
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 partnmod:poss
5partpartNOUNNumber=Sing2 henmod
6toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin43 metadvcl
7hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 toldiobj
8thatthatSCONJ_12 princemark
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 princensubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 princecop
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 princedet
12princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing6 toldccomp
13ofofADP_14 Dilaramcase
14DilaramDilaramPROPNNumber=Sing23 unboundedobl
15,,PUNCT_17 astonishmentpunct
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 astonishmentdet
17astonishmentastonishmentNOUNNumber=Sing23 unboundednsubj
18ofofADP_21 peoplecase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 peopledet
20youngyoungADJDegree=Pos21 peopleamod
21peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur17 astonishmentnmod
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 unboundedcop
23unboundedunboundedADJDegree=Pos12 princeconj
24totoPART_25 findmark
25findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf23 unboundedcsubj
26thatthatSCONJ_32 betrothedmark
27theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs32 betrothednsubj
28,,PUNCT_32 betrothedpunct
29whowhoPRONPronType=Rel32 betrothednsubj:pass
30hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 betrothedaux
31beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part32 betrothedaux:pass
32betrothedbetrothVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 findccomp
33withoutwithoutSCONJ_36 seenmark
34evereverADVPronType=Ind35 havingadvmod
35havinghaveAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part36 seenaux
36seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part32 betrothedadvcl
37oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card36 seenobj
38anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind37 onefixed
39,,PUNCT_6 toldpunct
40shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin43 metaux
41havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf43 metaux
42actuallyactuallyADV_43 metadvmod
43metmeetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
44forforADP_47 timecase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art47 timedet
46firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord47 timeamod
47timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing43 metobl
48ininADP_51 circumstancescase
49suchsuchADJDegree=Pos51 circumstancesamod
50strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos51 circumstancesamod
51circumstancescircumstanceNOUNNumber=Plur47 timenmod
52..PUNCT_43 metpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertpastprinceprincessvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2is apastprincethe princetree rules
3ispastthe astonishment of the young peopleof Dilaram; unbounded propertytree rules
4findto-infinitivevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5betrothpast · perfect · passivepeoplevn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
6seegerund · perfectonevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
7meetshould · perfecttimeactually propertyvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8astonishthe young peoplenom astonishment «feeling 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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