The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 35
He spoke with such grace and dignity that everyone gazed at him with mute surprise.
Who acts: King, everyone · What happens: speak, gaze · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (King, everyone), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 grace | case |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grace | amod |
| 5 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dignity | cc |
| 7 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grace | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 gazed | mark |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 gazed | nsubj |
| 10 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gazed | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 surprise | case |
| 14 | mute | mute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 surprise | amod |
| 15 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gazed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | King | with such grace and dignity | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with grace=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | gaze | past | everyone | at King; with mute surprise | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
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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