The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 88

The Princess, quite overcome by the strangeness of hearing a cabbage, a hen, and a pink speak, and by the terrible sight of an army of rats, suddenly became very pale, and fainted away.

Who acts: strangeness · What happens: overcome, hear, become, faint away, sight · To what, where: Princess, cabbage, army

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 (strangeness), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 overcome	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 overcome	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 overcome	advmod
5	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 strangeness	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 strangeness	det
8	strangeness	strangeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overcome	obl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 hearing	mark
10	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 strangeness	acl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cabbage	det
12	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hearing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hen	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hen	det
15	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cabbage	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 speak	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 speak	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 speak	det
19	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 speak	amod
20	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overcome	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 became	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 became	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 sight	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sight	det
25	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sight	amod
26	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 became	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 army	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 army	det
29	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sight	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 rats	case
31	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 army	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sight	punct
33	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	34 became	advmod
34	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overcome	parataxis
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 pale	advmod
36	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 became	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fainted	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fainted	cc
39	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 became	conj
40	away	away	ADV	_	39 fainted	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 overcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	overcome	participle · passive	the strangeness	the Princess	a pink speak obl	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
2	hear	gerund	the strangeness not said here	a cabbage and a hen		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cabbage=Stimulus
3	become	past			by the terrible sight of a army of rats; pale, suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	faint away	past			away property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	sight			a army of rats		nom sight «cognition 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 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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