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The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 151

When she stepped from the boat and the escort sent by the King of the Peacocks caught sight of her, they were so surprised that they could not say a single word.

Who acts: Rosette, escort, King · What happens: step, send, catch, be, not say, sight · To what, where: boat, escort, sight, single word, Rosette · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosette, escort, King), 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

advmodnsubjadvclcasedetoblccdetnsubjaclcasedetoblcasedetnmodconjobjcasenmodpunctnsubjcopadvmodmarknsubjauxadvmodadvcldetamodobjpunctrootWhenADVshePRONsteppedVERBfromADPtheDETboatNOUNandCCONJtheDETescortNOUNsentVERBbyADPtheDETKingPROPNofADPtheDETPeacocksPROPNcaughtVERBsightNOUNofADPherPRON,PUNCTtheyPRONwereAUXsoADVsurprisedADJthatSCONJtheyPRONcouldAUXnotPARTsayVERBaDETsingleADJwordNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 steppedadvmod
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 steppednsubj
3steppedstepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 surprisedadvcl
4fromfromADP_6 boatcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 boatdet
6boatboatNOUNNumber=Sing3 steppedobl
7andandCCONJ_17 caughtcc
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 escortdet
9escortescortNOUNNumber=Sing17 caughtnsubj
10sentsendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 escortacl
11bybyADP_13 Kingcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Kingdet
13KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing10 sentobl
14ofofADP_16 Peacockscase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Peacocksdet
16PeacocksPeacockPROPNNumber=Plur13 Kingnmod
17caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 steppedconj
18sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing17 caughtobj
19ofofADP_20 hercase
20hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 sightnmod
21,,PUNCT_3 steppedpunct
22theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 surprisednsubj
23werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 surprisedcop
24sosoADV_25 surprisedadvmod
25surprisedsurprisedADJDegree=Posrootroot
26thatthatSCONJ_30 saymark
27theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 saynsubj
28couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin30 sayaux
29notnotPARTPolarity=Neg30 sayadvmod
30saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf25 surprisedadvcl
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 worddet
32singlesingleADJDegree=Pos33 wordamod
33wordwordNOUNNumber=Sing30 sayobj
34..PUNCT_25 surprisedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1steppastRosettethe boatvn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from boat=Trajectory
2sendparticiplethe escort not said hereby the King of the Peacocksvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3catchpastthe escortsight of Rosettevn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
4ispastKingsurprised propertytree rules
5not say speech: assertcouldKinga single wordvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
6sightRosettenom 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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