The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 59
At first Koma did not know him again, he had grown so large and stately; but when it dawned upon her who it was, her happiness knew no bounds.
Who acts: Koma, Gon, joy, happiness · What happens: not know, grow, dawn, be, know · To what, where: Gon, bounds
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (Koma, Gon, joy, happiness), 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 | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 know | obl |
| 3 | Koma | Koma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 know | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grown | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grown | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grown | aux |
| 12 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 know | parataxis |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 large | advmod |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grown | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stately | cc |
| 16 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 12 grown | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 knew | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 knew | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 dawned | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dawned | nsubj |
| 21 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 knew | advcl |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dawned | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 dawned | ccomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 who | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 who | cop |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dawned | punct |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 29 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 knew | nsubj |
| 30 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | parataxis |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 bounds | det |
| 32 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 knew | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Koma | Gon | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | grow | past · perfect | Gon | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dawn | past | joy | upon Koma | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | joy | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | past | Koma's happiness | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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