The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 22
But what a sight met her eyes at the very entrance of the palace!
Who acts: sight · What happens: meet · To what, where: eyes, entrance
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 | _ | 5 met | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 met | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sight | det |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 entrance | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 entrance | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 entrance | advmod |
| 11 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entrance | nmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a sight | sight's eyes | the entrance of the palace | 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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