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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 imagine | cc |
| 2 | imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 4 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 imagine | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 delight | cc |
| 6 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 astonishment | conj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 stood | advmod |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 princess | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 10 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 princess | amod |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 imagine | advcl |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 opened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 opened | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 speechless | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 speechless | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 speechless | cop |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 speechless | advmod |
| 22 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 opened | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 amazement | case |
| 24 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 speechless | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 speechless | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 door | det |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 opened | nsubj |
| 28 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 imagine | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 entered | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 company | det |
| 31 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 company | amod |
| 32 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 entered | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 knights | case |
| 34 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 company | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ladies | cc |
| 36 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 knights | conj |
| 37 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 opened | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 carrying | punct |
| 39 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 carrying | nsubj |
| 40 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 entered | advcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 cat | det |
| 42 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 skin | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 cat | case |
| 44 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 carrying | obj |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | task's astonishment and delight | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot astonishment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a lovely princess | before task | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | task | still | with amazement; speechless property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | a goodly company of knights and ladies | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | carry | gerund | each | a cat's skin | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 7 | astonish | task | nom 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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