The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 67
But the noise and astonishment of the people on seeing me rise and walk were inexpressible.
Who acts: people, me, noise · What happens: see, rise, walk, be, noise · To what, where: me
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 (people, me, noise), 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 | _ | 16 inexpressible | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 noise | det |
| 3 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inexpressible | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 astonishment | cc |
| 5 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noise | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 noise | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 10 seeing | mark |
| 10 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 people | acl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seeing | obj |
| 12 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seeing | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 walk | cc |
| 14 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rise | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 inexpressible | cop |
| 16 | inexpressible | inexpressible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 inexpressible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the people not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | infinitive | me not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk | infinitive | me not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the noise of the people and astonishment | inexpressible property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | noise | the people | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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