The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 78
Then Charming was led in, and was so struck with astonishment and admiration that at first not a word could he say.
Who acts: word · What happens: lead in, strike, say · To what, where: Charming, astonishment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | aux:pass |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 led | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 struck | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 struck | aux:pass |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 struck | advmod |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 led | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 astonishment | case |
| 12 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 admiration | cc |
| 14 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 astonishment | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 say | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 first | case |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 say | obl |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 word | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 say | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 say | aux |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 say | nsubj |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 astonishment | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead in | past · passive | Charming | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past · passive | with astonishment and admiration | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: with astonishment=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | could | a word | astonishment and admiration | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
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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