The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 35
They were greatly surprised at the riches it contained.
Who acts: room · What happens: surprise, contain · To what, where: orders, riches
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 surprised | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | aux:pass |
| 3 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 4 surprised | advmod |
| 4 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 riches | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 riches | det |
| 7 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surprised | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 contained | nsubj |
| 9 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 riches | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | past · passive | orders = order | the riches | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | contain | past | room | the riches not said here | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rich=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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