The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 56
But what was the horror of the Fairy, who followed this gay troop, when she saw, stretched upon the sands, the image of the King which the Mermaid had made with the sea-weeds.
Who acts: horror, rest · What happens: be, follow, see, stretch, make, image · To what, where: horror, gay troop, image, King
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horror, rest), 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 | _ | 5 horror | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 horror | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horror | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horror | det |
| 5 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fairy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fairy | det |
| 8 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 horror | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horror | acl:relcl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 troop | det |
| 13 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 troop | amod |
| 14 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horror | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stretched | punct |
| 20 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 saw | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 sands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sands | det |
| 23 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stretched | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 image | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 image | det |
| 26 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horror | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 King | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 image | nmod |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 made | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Mermaid | det |
| 32 | Mermaid | Mermaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 made | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 made | aux |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 image | acl:relcl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 weeds | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 weeds | det |
| 37 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 weeds | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 sea | punct |
| 39 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 made | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 horror | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the horror and the image of the King | of the Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the horror and the image of the King | this gay troop | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troop=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | rest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | stretch | participle | rest not said here | upon the sands | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | past · perfect · passive | the image of the King | with the sea weeds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 6 | image | the King | nom image «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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