The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 69
Miranda reached her father’s palace just as the wedding ceremony began, and everyone, as soon as she came in, was struck with surprise at her beauty and the splendor of her jewels.
Who acts: Miranda, wedding ceremony · What happens: reach, begin, come in, strike · To what, where: palace, everyone, beauty
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (Miranda, wedding ceremony), 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 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 father | case |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 began | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 began | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ceremony | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ceremony | compound |
| 11 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 struck | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 struck | cc |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 struck | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 came | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 everyone | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 struck | aux:pass |
| 25 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reached | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 surprise | case |
| 27 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 struck | obl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 beauty | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 30 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 struck | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 splendor | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 splendor | det |
| 33 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beauty | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 jewels | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 36 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 splendor | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Miranda | Miranda's father's palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the wedding ceremony | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come in | past | Miranda | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | past · passive | everyone | Miranda's beauty and the splendor of Miranda's jewels | with surprise | tree rules |
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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