The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 24
And when he saw the picture of the maid, so beautiful and glittering with gold and precious stones, he fell swooning to the ground.
Who acts: Trusty · What happens: see, glitter, fall, swoon · To what, where: picture
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trusty), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 picture | det |
| 6 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 maid | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maid | det |
| 9 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 picture | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glittering | cc |
| 14 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 beautiful | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glittering | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stones | cc |
| 18 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stones | amod |
| 19 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gold | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 23 | swooning | swoon | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 fell | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swooning | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Trusty | the picture of the maid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | Trusty not said here | with gold and precious stones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | Trusty | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | swoon | gerund | Trusty not said here | to the ground | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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