The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 100
No more exquisitely lovely mortal was ever seen than this Princess, and it needed all an eagle’s strength of sight to prevent the King being hopelessly dazzled.
Who acts: mortal · What happens: see, need, prevent, dazzle · To what, where: lovely mortal, strength, King
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (mortal), 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 | No | no | ADV | _ | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 seen | advmod |
| 3 | exquisitely | exquisitely | ADV | _ | 8 seen | advmod |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mortal | amod |
| 5 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 seen | advmod |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 needed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 needed | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 needed | nsubj |
| 15 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 strength | det:predet |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 eagle | det |
| 18 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strength | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 eagle | case |
| 20 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 needed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sight | case |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strength | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 prevent | mark |
| 24 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 needed | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 dazzled | nsubj |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 28 | hopelessly | hopelessly | ADV | _ | 29 dazzled | advmod |
| 29 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 prevent | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | lovely mortal | ever | than this Princess; exquisitely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | need | past | mortal | a eagle's strength of sight | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot strength=Theme | ||||
| 3 | prevent | to-infinitive | mortal not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | dazzle | gerund · passive | the King | hopelessly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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