The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 83
The King’s amazement knew no bounds, and the Princess’s eyes beamed with delight as she turned them from the wonderful building on the delighted Ferko.
Who acts: amazement, eyes, King · What happens: know, beam, turn, amaze · To what, where: bounds, eyes, wonderful building
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 (amazement, eyes, King), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 bounds | det |
| 7 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beamed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beamed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beamed | nsubj |
| 14 | beamed | beam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 knew | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 delight | case |
| 16 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beamed | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 turned | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beamed | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turned | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 building | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 building | det |
| 23 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 building | amod |
| 24 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 Ferko | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Ferko | det |
| 27 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Ferko | amod |
| 28 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 building | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the King's amazement | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | beam | participle | the Princess's eyes | with delight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with delight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | amazement | eyes = eye | the wonderful building on the delighted Ferko | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme from building=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | amaze | the King | nom amazement «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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