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The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 55

But imagine his astonishment and delight when suddenly a lovely princess stood before him, and, while he was still speechless with amazement, the door opened and a goodly company of knights and ladies entered, each carrying a cat’s skin!

Who acts: you, lovely princess, task, door, goodly company, each · What happens: imagine, stand, be, open, enter, carry · To what, where: astonishment, skin

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lovely princess, task, door), 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

ccnmod:possobjccconjadvmodadvmoddetamodnsubjadvclcaseoblpunctccpunctmarknsubjcopadvmodadvclcaseoblpunctdetnsubjparataxisccdetamodnsubjcasenmodccconjconjpunctnsubjadvcldetnmod:posscaseobjpunctrootButCCONJimagineVERBhisPRONastonishmentNOUNandCCONJdelightNOUNwhenADVsuddenlyADVaDETlovelyADJprincessNOUNstoodVERBbeforeADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTwhileSCONJhePRONwasAUXstillADVspeechlessADJwithADPamazementNOUN,PUNCTtheDETdoorNOUNopenedVERBandCCONJaDETgoodlyADJcompanyNOUNofADPknightsNOUNandCCONJladiesNOUNenteredVERB,PUNCTeachDETcarryingVERBaDETcatNOUN’sPARTskinNOUN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_2 imaginecc
2imagineimagineVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 astonishmentnmod:poss
4astonishmentastonishmentNOUNNumber=Sing2 imagineobj
5andandCCONJ_6 delightcc
6delightdelightNOUNNumber=Sing4 astonishmentconj
7whenwhenADVPronType=Int12 stoodadvmod
8suddenlysuddenlyADV_11 princessadvmod
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 princessdet
10lovelylovelyADJDegree=Pos11 princessamod
11princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing12 stoodnsubj
12stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 imagineadvcl
13beforebeforeADP_14 himcase
14himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 stoodobl
15,,PUNCT_28 openedpunct
16andandCCONJ_28 openedcc
17,,PUNCT_16 andpunct
18whilewhileSCONJ_22 speechlessmark
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 speechlessnsubj
20wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 speechlesscop
21stillstillADV_22 speechlessadvmod
22speechlessspeechlessADJDegree=Pos28 openedadvcl
23withwithADP_24 amazementcase
24amazementamazementNOUNNumber=Sing22 speechlessobl
25,,PUNCT_22 speechlesspunct
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 doordet
27doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing28 openednsubj
28openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 imagineparataxis
29andandCCONJ_37 enteredcc
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 companydet
31goodlygoodlyADJDegree=Pos32 companyamod
32companycompanyNOUNNumber=Sing37 enterednsubj
33ofofADP_34 knightscase
34knightsknightNOUNNumber=Plur32 companynmod
35andandCCONJ_36 ladiescc
36ladiesladyNOUNNumber=Plur34 knightsconj
37enteredenterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 openedconj
38,,PUNCT_40 carryingpunct
39eacheachDETPronType=Tot40 carryingnsubj
40carryingcarryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part37 enteredadvcl
41aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 catdet
42catcatNOUNNumber=Sing44 skinnmod:poss
43’s'sPART_42 catcase
44skinskinNOUNNumber=Sing40 carryingobj
45!!PUNCT_2 imaginepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1imagineimperativeyou not said heretask's astonishment and delightvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot astonishment=Theme
2standpasta lovely princessbefore taskvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3ispasttaskstillwith amazement; speechless propertytree rules
4openpastthe doorvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5enterpasta goodly company of knights and ladiesvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6carrygerundeacha cat's skinvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
7astonishtasknom astonishment «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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