The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 9
At the sight of so much majesty, the magician was not only dazzled, but was so amazed that, after she had prostrated herself before the throne, she could not open her lips to thank the Fairy as she proposed.
Who acts: magician · What happens: not dazzle, be, prostrate, not open, thank, propose · To what, where: magician, sight, lips, Fairy, much majesty
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dazzled | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 majesty | case |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 majesty | amod |
| 7 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sight | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 magician | det |
| 10 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dazzled | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 dazzled | advmod |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 dazzled | advmod |
| 14 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 amazed | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 amazed | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 amazed | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 amazed | advmod |
| 19 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dazzled | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 prostrated | mark |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 prostrated | punct |
| 22 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 25 prostrated | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 prostrated | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 prostrated | aux |
| 25 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 amazed | advcl |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 prostrated | obj |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 throne | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 throne | det |
| 29 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 prostrated | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 open | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 open | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 open | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 open | advmod |
| 34 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 dazzled | parataxis |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 lips | nmod:poss |
| 36 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 open | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 thank | mark |
| 38 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 open | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Fairy | det |
| 40 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 thank | obj |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 proposed | mark |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 proposed | nsubj |
| 43 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 thank | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dazzle | past · passive | the magician | the sight of much majesty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | amazed property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | prostrate | past · perfect · passive | magician | before the throne | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not open | could | magician | magician's lips | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lip=Theme | ||||
| 5 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | magician not said here | the Fairy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | ||||
| 6 | propose | past | magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | sight | much majesty | 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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