The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 51
She was so dazzled and delighted by what she saw, that there she stayed, never taking her eyes away from the peep-hole for a single minute, until presently the ambassador’s procession appeared in sight.
Who acts: Princess, procession, ambassador · What happens: dazzle, delight, see, stay, not take away, appear · To what, where: Princess, eyes, peep hole, sight
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, procession, ambassador), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 dazzled | advmod |
| 4 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 delighted | cc |
| 6 | delighted | delight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dazzled | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 delighted | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 stayed | mark |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 stayed | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stayed | nsubj |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dazzled | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taking | punct |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 taking | advmod |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 stayed | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 taking | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 taking | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 hole | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hole | det |
| 24 | peep | peep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hole | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 peep | punct |
| 26 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 minute | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 minute | det |
| 29 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 minute | amod |
| 30 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hole | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 appeared | punct |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 38 appeared | mark |
| 33 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 35 ambassador | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ambassador | det |
| 35 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 procession | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 ambassador | case |
| 37 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 appeared | nsubj |
| 38 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stayed | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 sight | case |
| 40 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 appeared | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dazzle | past · passive | Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | delight | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | stay | past | Princess | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not take away | gerund | Princess not said here | Princess's eyes | the peep hole for a single minute | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from hole=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | appear | past | the ambassador's procession | sight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 7 | proceed | the ambassador | nom procession «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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