The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 50

When Rosette saw the beautiful garden, full of fruit and flowers, with green grass and sparkling fountains, she was so astonished that not a word could she say, for she had never in her life seen anything like it before.

Who acts: Rosette, word, life · What happens: see, sparkle, be, say, have · To what, where: beautiful garden, fountains, life, anything · 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, word, life), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 garden	amod
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 full	punct
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 garden	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 fruit	case
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flowers	cc
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fruit	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grass	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 grass	case
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grass	amod
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sparkling	cc
18	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 grass	conj
19	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sparkling	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 astonished	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 astonished	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 astonished	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 astonished	advmod
24	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 say	mark
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 word	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 word	det
28	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 astonished	csubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 had	case
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 say	ccomp
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 life	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 life	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 life	nmod:poss
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
40	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 life	acl
41	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 seen	obj
42	like	like	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 anything	nmod
44	before	before	ADV	_	40 seen	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Rosette	the beautiful garden	with green grass	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus
2	sparkle	gerund	Rosette not said here	fountains		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fountain=Theme
3	is	past	Rosette		astonished property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	could	a word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	past	word	word's life		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
6	see	participle	word's life not said here	anything	like life; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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