The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 103

When he told the maiden, he saw to his astonishment that she had become as white as a sheet, and she was quite dumb.

Who acts: maiden, way · What happens: tell, see, become, be, astonish · To what, where: maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (maiden, way), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 astonishment	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 astonishment	nmod:poss
11	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 become	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 become	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 become	aux
15	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 saw	ccomp
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 white	advmod
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 become	xcomp
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 sheet	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sheet	det
20	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 white	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dumb	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dumb	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dumb	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 dumb	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 dumb	advmod
26	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saw	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	maiden	the maiden		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient
2	see	past	maiden		to maiden's astonishment	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	become	past · perfect	way		white property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	way		dumb property	tree rules
5	astonish		maiden			nom astonishment «feeling 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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