The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 23

Felicia was hidden in the shade, too much astonished by all she saw to venture to move; but in a few moments the Queen said:

Who acts: Felicia, Queen · What happens: hide, astonish, see, venture, move, say · To what, where: Felicia, shade, much · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Felicia, Queen), 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	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	aux:pass
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 shade	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shade	det
6	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 astonished	punct
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 astonished	nsubj:pass
10	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hidden	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 astonished	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 all	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 venture	mark
16	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 saw	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 move	mark
18	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 venture	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 moments	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 moments	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 moments	amod
24	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 said	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Queen	det
26	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 hidden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		Felicia	the shade			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in shade=Location
2	astonish	participle · passive		much			by all	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	see	past	Felicia					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	venture	to-infinitive	Felicia not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	move	to-infinitive	Felicia not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	the Queen			moment		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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