The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 164
When he saw her he was very much astonished at her beauty, which would have made anyone less hard-hearted sorry for her.
Who acts: son, anyone · What happens: see, astonish, make, sorry · To what, where: Delicia, son, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, anyone), 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 astonished | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 astonished | aux:pass |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 astonished | advmod |
| 9 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 beauty | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 astonished | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | aux |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 sorry | nsubj |
| 19 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 hard | advmod |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sorry | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 hard | punct |
| 22 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sorry | amod |
| 23 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sorry | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | son | Delicia | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | astonish | past · passive | son | Delicia's beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make | would · perfect · passive | Delicia's beauty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | sorry | anyone | for Delicia | tree rules |
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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