The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 30
Oh! what wonders and splendours unfolded themselves before Elsa’s astonished eyes!
Who acts: wonders · What happens: unfold · To what, where: wonders
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonders), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 unfolded | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 splendours | cc |
| 6 | splendours | splendour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wonders | conj |
| 7 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 unfolded | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 10 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Elsa | case |
| 12 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 unfolded | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfold | past | wonders and splendours | wonders = wonder | before Elsa's astonished eyes | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
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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