The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 79
The whole court went out to see the wonder, and their astonishment was great at the sight which met their eyes.
Who acts: whole court, astonishment, sight, walls · What happens: go out, see, be, meet, astonish · To what, where: wonder, sight, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (whole court, astonishment, sight, walls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 court | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 court | amod |
| 3 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wonder | det |
| 9 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 great | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 great | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 13 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 great | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 great | cop |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sight | det |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 great | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 met | nsubj |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sight | acl:relcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 met | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the whole court | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the whole court not said here | the wonder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wonder=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | walls's astonishment | the sight | great property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | meet | past | the sight | walls's eyes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | astonish | walls = wall | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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