The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 71
The Princess stood dismayed at the sight of the terrible skein.
What happens: dismay, sight · To what, where: Princess, sight, terrible skein
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. 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 | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dismayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismayed | aux:pass |
| 4 | dismayed | dismay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dismayed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 skein | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skein | det |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 skein | amod |
| 11 | skein | skein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dismayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismay | past · passive | the Princess | the sight of the terrible skein | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sight | the terrible skein | nom 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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