The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 220
At the sight of the hideous gypsy he was struck dumb with surprise and horror.
What happens: strike, sight · To what, where: horse, sight, hideous gypsy
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gypsy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gypsy | det |
| 6 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gypsy | amod |
| 7 | gypsy | gypsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 struck | aux:pass |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 struck | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 surprise | case |
| 13 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 horror | cc |
| 15 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surprise | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · passive | horse | the sight of the hideous gypsy | with surprise and horror; dumb property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sight | the hideous gypsy | 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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