The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 100
Behold Drakestail much astonished, all alone in the big saloon and master of the field.
Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: astonish · To what, where: big saloon
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail), 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 2 Drakestail | discourse |
| 2 | Drakestail | Drakestail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 astonished | advmod |
| 4 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 alone | punct |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 alone | advmod |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 astonished | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 saloon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 saloon | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saloon | amod |
| 11 | saloon | saloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 astonished | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 master | cc |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saloon | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 field | det |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 master | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | past | Drakestail | the big saloon and master of the field | alone property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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