The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 97
All were astonished then by seeing two witches lying dead on the floor of the hall.
Who acts: two witches · What happens: astonish, see, lie · To what, where: All, two witches, floor
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two witches), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 astonished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 astonished | aux:pass |
| 3 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 astonished | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 seeing | mark |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 astonished | advcl |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 witches | nummod |
| 8 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seeing | obj |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 witches | acl |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lying | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 floor | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | past · passive | All | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | two witches | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | two witches not said here | the floor of the hall | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/49/97/