The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 92

But what was his surprise, on reaching the shore, to hear sounds of the most heartrending distress, mingled with the sweetest songs which had ever charmed him!

What happens: be, reach, hear, mingle, charm · To what, where: surprise, shore, sounds, sweetest songs

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 surprise	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 surprise	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprise	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 surprise	nmod:poss
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reaching	punct
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 reaching	mark
8	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 surprise	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reaching	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 reaching	conj
14	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hear	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 distress	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 distress	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 heartrending	advmod
18	heartrending	heartrending	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 distress	amod
19	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sounds	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mingled	punct
21	mingled	mingle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sounds	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 songs	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 songs	det
24	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 songs	amod
25	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 mingled	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 charmed	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 charmed	aux
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 charmed	advmod
29	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 songs	acl:relcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 charmed	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sight's surprise			tree rules
2	reach	gerund	the shore			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
3	hear	to-infinitive	sounds of the heartrending distress			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
4	mingle	participle			with the sweetest songs	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with song=Co-Patient
5	charm	past · perfect · passive	the sweetest songs	ever		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result

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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