The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 123
With her bright eyes, and the charming color in her cheeks, she was altogether such a dazzling sight that the Prince could hardly bear it.
Who acts: Princess, Prince · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: dazzling sight
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Prince), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 color | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 color | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 color | det |
| 8 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 color | compound |
| 9 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cheeks | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 color | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sight | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sight | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sight | cop |
| 16 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 20 sight | advmod |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 sight | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sight | det |
| 19 | dazzling | dazzling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sight | compound |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 color | appos |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 bear | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Prince | det |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 bear | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bear | aux |
| 25 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 26 bear | advmod |
| 26 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sight | acl:relcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bear | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eyes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Princess | such dazzling sight | altogether property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bear | could | the Prince | such dazzling sight | hardly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary it=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 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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