The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 23
What an unexpected sight met his gaze!
Who acts: unexpected sight, sight · What happens: meet, gaze · To what, where: gaze
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (unexpected sight, sight), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 sight | det:predet |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sight | det |
| 3 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sight | amod |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | what unexpected sight | sight's gaze | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaze=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | gaze | sight | nom gaze «act intransitive»: 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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