The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 33
The astonishment of the giant at the sudden disappearance of the Prince may well be imagined.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: imagine, disappear · To what, where: astonishment
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 astonishment | det |
| 2 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 giant | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 astonishment | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 disappearance | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 disappearance | det |
| 8 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 disappearance | amod |
| 9 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giant | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Prince | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 disappearance | nmod |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 imagined | aux |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 imagined | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 imagined | aux:pass |
| 16 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may · passive | the astonishment | well property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disappear | the Prince | nom disappearance «act 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 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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