The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 75

But if Uraschimataro was astonished at the beauty of the outside, he was struck dumb at the sight of the hall within, which was lighted by the blaze of fish scales.

Who acts: blaze, fish scales · What happens: astonish, strike, light, sight, blaze · To what, where: Uraschimataro, beauty, man, sight, hall

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (blaze, fish scales), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 struck	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 astonished	mark
3	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 astonished	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	aux:pass
5	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 struck	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 beauty	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beauty	det
8	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 astonished	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 outside	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 outside	det
11	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beauty	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 astonished	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 struck	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 struck	aux:pass
15	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 struck	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 sight	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sight	det
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 struck	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 hall	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hall	det
22	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sight	nmod
23	within	within	ADP	_	27 lighted	mark
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lighted	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lighted	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lighted	aux:pass
27	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 struck	advcl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 blaze	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 blaze	det
30	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lighted	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 scales	case
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 scales	compound
33	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 blaze	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	astonish a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Uraschimataro	the beauty of the outside		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	strike	past · passive		man	the sight of the hall	dumb property	tree rules
3	light	past · passive	the blaze of fish scales				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
4	sight			the hall			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	blaze		fish scales				nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=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 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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