The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 40

Her brothers and sisters were all astonished at her appearance, as they had never expected to see her again, and there was no end to the questions they asked her.

Who acts: brothers · What happens: be, not expect, see · To what, where: appearance, brothers, sound

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brothers	nmod:poss
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 astonished	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sisters	cc
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brothers	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 astonished	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 astonished	advmod
7	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 appearance	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 appearance	nmod:poss
10	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 astonished	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 expected	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 expected	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 expected	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 expected	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 expected	advmod
16	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 astonished	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 expected	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 see	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 was	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 asked	cop
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 end	det
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 was	nsubj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 questions	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 questions	det
29	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 was	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 asked	nsubj
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 astonished	parataxis
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 asked	iobj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sound's brothers and sisters			sound's appearance		all, astonished property	tree rules
2	not expect	past · perfect · passive		brothers = brother					tree rules
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	sound			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	is	past	brothers = brother		sound			ask property	tree rules

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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