The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 85

The bridegroom sat at the head of the table, the Princess on one side of him and the waiting-maid on the other; but she was so dazzled that she did not recognize the Princess in her glittering garments.

Who acts: bridegroom · What happens: sit, dazzle, not recognize · To what, where: head, bridegroom, Princess, glittering garments

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridegroom), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bridegroom	det
2	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Princess	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 side	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 side	nummod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Princess	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 side	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 maid	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 maid	det
20	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 maid	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 waiting	punct
22	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 him	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 other	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 maid	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 dazzled	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 dazzled	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dazzled	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dazzled	aux:pass
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 dazzled	advmod
31	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 recognize	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 recognize	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 recognize	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 recognize	advmod
36	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 dazzled	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Princess	det
38	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 recognize	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 garments	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 garments	nmod:poss
41	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 garments	compound
42	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 recognize	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	the bridegroom		the head of the table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=Location
2	dazzle	past · passive		bridegroom		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	not recognize	past · do-support	bridegroom	the Princess	bridegroom's glittering garments	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus

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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