The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 37

The Prince reached the palace in safety, but was so dazzled at first by the Princess’s beauty, which far surpassed his expectations, that he was quite dumb for a time.

Who acts: Prince, beauty, parrot · What happens: reach, dazzle, surpass, be, expect · To what, where: palace, safety, expectations

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, beauty, parrot), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 safety	case
7	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dazzled	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 dazzled	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dazzled	aux:pass
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 dazzled	advmod
12	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reached	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 first	case
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 dazzled	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	19 beauty	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 beauty	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Princess	case
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dazzled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 surpassed	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 surpassed	nsubj
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 surpassed	advmod
23	surpassed	surpass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 beauty	acl:relcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 expectations	nmod:poss
25	expectations	expectation	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 surpassed	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dumb	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 dumb	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dumb	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dumb	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 dumb	advmod
31	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dazzled	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 time	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dumb	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the Prince	the palace	safety			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
2	dazzle	past · passive	the Princess's beauty					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	surpass	past	the Princess's beauty	parrot's expectations			far property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot expectation=Theme
4	is	past	parrot			time	dumb property	tree rules
5	expect		parrot					nom expectation «cognition 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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