The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 46

However, I could not wonder enough at the daring of these tiny mortals, who ventured to mount and walk upon my body, while one of my hands was free, without trembling at the very sight of so huge a creature as I must have seemed to them.

Who acts: I, tiny mortals, one, trembling · What happens: not wonder, venture, mount, walk, be, tremble · To what, where: daring, body, sight, hands, tiny mortals, huge creature

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tiny mortals, one, trembling), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 wonder	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wonder	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wonder	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wonder	advmod
6	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 wonder	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 daring	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 daring	det
10	daring	daring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wonder	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 mortals	case
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 mortals	det
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mortals	amod
14	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 daring	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ventured	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 ventured	nsubj
17	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mortals	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 mount	mark
19	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ventured	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 walk	cc
21	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 mount	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 body	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 body	nmod:poss
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 walk	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 free	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 free	mark
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 free	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hands	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hands	nmod:poss
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 free	cop
32	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wonder	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 trembling	punct
34	without	without	SCONJ	_	35 trembling	mark
35	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 seemed	csubj
36	at	at	ADP	_	39 sight	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sight	det
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 sight	advmod
39	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trembling	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 creature	case
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 huge	advmod
42	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 creature	amod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 creature	det
44	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sight	nmod
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 have	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 have	nsubj
47	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 have	aux
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 trembling	advcl
49	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 free	parataxis
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 seemed	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not wonder speech: ask	could	I			the daring of this tiny mortals	enough, however property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	venture	past	this tiny mortals					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mount	to-infinitive	this tiny mortals not said here					vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
4	walk	infinitive	this tiny mortals not said here			my body		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon body=Trajectory
5	is	past	one of my hands				free property	tree rules
6	tremble	gerund				the sight of a huge creature		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location
7	have	must	I					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	seem	past	trembling		hands = hand			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
9	dare			this tiny mortals				nom daring «communication transitive»: of=patient
10	sight			a huge creature				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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