The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 81
The Star Gazer was quite bewildered at the magnificence of the sight.
What happens: bewilder · To what, where: Star Gazer, magnificence
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Gazer | det |
| 2 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gazer | compound |
| 3 | Gazer | Gazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bewildered | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bewildered | aux:pass |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 bewildered | advmod |
| 6 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 magnificence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 magnificence | det |
| 9 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bewildered | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sight | det |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 magnificence | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bewildered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewilder | past · passive | the Star Gazer | the magnificence of the sight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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