The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 44
Her appearance was a great shock to the Prince, and so was her voice, which was like the croaking of many ravens.
Who acts: appearance, voice · What happens: be · To what, where: great shock, voice
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, voice), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shock | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shock | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shock | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shock | amod |
| 6 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shock | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 voice | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 voice | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 voice | cop |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shock | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 croaking | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 croaking | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 croaking | cop |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 croaking | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 croaking | det |
| 21 | croaking | croaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 ravens | case |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ravens | amod |
| 24 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 croaking | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | dragon's appearance | a great shock | to the Prince | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | dragon's voice and the croaking | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | dragon's voice and the croaking | like the croaking; of many ravens | tree rules |
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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