The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 84
The shock of this discovery was so real, that Prince Gnome sank fainting into the arms of his friend.
Who acts: shock, that · What happens: be, sink, faint, shock · To what, where: arms, discovery
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 (shock, that), 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 shock | det |
| 2 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 real | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 discovery | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 discovery | det |
| 5 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shock | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 real | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 real | advmod |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sank | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 sank | nsubj |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gnome | compound |
| 12 | Gnome | Gnome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sank | nsubj |
| 13 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 real | advcl |
| 14 | fainting | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 sank | xcomp |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 arms | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 arms | det |
| 17 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fainting | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 friend | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friend | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arms | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 real | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the shock of this discovery | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | faint | gerund | that not said here | the arms of Flame's friend | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | shock | this discovery | nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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