The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 46

To his great surprise he found it represented an extremely handsome young man, who was so like himself that it might have been his own portrait!

Who acts: sight, surprise, handsome young man · What happens: find, represent, be, surprise · To what, where: handsome young man, own portrait · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, surprise, handsome young man), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 surprise	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 surprise	nmod:poss
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 surprise	amod
4	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 represented	nsubj
8	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	ccomp
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
10	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	11 handsome	advmod
11	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 represented	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 himself	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 himself	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 himself	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 himself	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 himself	case
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 man	nmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 portrait	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 portrait	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 portrait	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 portrait	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 portrait	cop
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 portrait	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 portrait	amod
27	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 himself	advcl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	sight		to sight's great surprise	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	represent	past	surprise	a handsome young man		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme
3	is	past	a handsome young man		like sight	tree rules
4	is a	might · perfect	surprise	sight's own portrait		tree rules
5	surprise		sight			nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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