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The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 46

But the guests were less astonished at the brilliancy of the diamonds than at the beauty of the bride, which was beyond anything they had ever seen or heard of.

Who acts: beauty, guests · What happens: astonish, be, see, hear · To what, where: guests, brilliancy

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, guests), 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

ccdetnsubj:passaux:passadvmodcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasecasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctnsubjcopcaseconjnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclccconjoblpunctrootButCCONJtheDETguestsNOUNwereAUXlessADVastonishedVERBatADPtheDETbrilliancyNOUNofADPtheDETdiamondsNOUNthanADPatADPtheDETbeautyNOUNofADPtheDETbrideNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwasAUXbeyondADPanythingPRONtheyPRONhadAUXeverADVseenVERBorCCONJheardVERBofADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_6 astonishedcc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 guestsdet
3guestsguestNOUNNumber=Plur6 astonishednsubj:pass
4werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 astonishedaux:pass
5lesslessADVDegree=Cmp6 astonishedadvmod
6astonishedastonishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7atatADP_9 brilliancycase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 brilliancydet
9brilliancybrilliancyNOUNNumber=Sing6 astonishedobl
10ofofADP_12 diamondscase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 diamondsdet
12diamondsdiamondNOUNNumber=Plur9 brilliancynmod
13thanthanADP_16 beautycase
14atatADP_16 beautycase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 beautydet
16beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing6 astonishedobl
17ofofADP_19 bridecase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 bridedet
19bridebrideNOUNNumber=Sing16 beautynmod
20,,PUNCT_24 anythingpunct
21whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel24 anythingnsubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 anythingcop
23beyondbeyondADP_24 anythingcase
24anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind16 beautyconj
25theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 seennsubj
26hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 seenaux
27evereverADVPronType=Ind28 seenadvmod
28seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part24 anythingacl:relcl
29ororCCONJ_30 heardcc
30heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part28 seenconj
31ofofADP_30 heardobl
32..PUNCT_6 astonishedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1astonishpast · passivethe gueststhe brilliancy of the diamondsthan the beauty of the bride; less propertyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2ispastthe beauty of the bridebeyond anythingtree rules
3seepast · perfectguests = guestevervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4hearparticipleguests = guest not said herevn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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