The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 128

But he was surprised to find that the brook was gone, and where it had been stood a great house that seemed to be built of gold and precious stones.

Who acts: Darling, brook, great house · What happens: be, find, seem, build · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling, brook, great house), 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	_	4 surprised	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	cop
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 surprised	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 gone	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brook	det
9	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	cop
11	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 find	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stood	cc
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 stood	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stood	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stood	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 stood	cop
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 house	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 house	amod
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 house	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	26 built	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 built	aux:pass
26	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 seemed	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 gold	case
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 built	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stones	cc
30	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stones	amod
31	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gold	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Darling	surprised property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	Darling not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the brook	gone property	tree rules
4	is	past · perfect	brook	stand property	tree rules
5	seem	past	a great house		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	build	to-infinitive · passive	a great house not said here	of gold and precious stones	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»

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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