The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 20
What was his surprise to see reflected in the mirror, not his own face, but that of a young girl as lovely as the morning!
What happens: be, see, reflect · To what, where: surprise, mirror
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 surprise | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprise | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprise | acl |
| 7 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 see | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mirror | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mirror | det |
| 10 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reflected | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 face | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 face | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 face | amod |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mirror | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 girl | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 girl | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 girl | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 girl | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surprise | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 lovely | advmod |
| 24 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 morning | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 morning | det |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lovely | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Saphir's surprise | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | reflect | participle | the mirror and Saphir's own face | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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