The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 43
The silver armour of herself and her steed dazzled the eyes of the people as she darted past.
Who acts: silver armour, heart · What happens: dazzle, dart · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver armour, heart), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 armour | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 armour | amod |
| 3 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dazzled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 armour | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 steed | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 steed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 herself | conj |
| 9 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eyes | det |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dazzled | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eyes | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 darted | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 darted | nsubj |
| 17 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dazzled | advcl |
| 18 | past | past | ADV | _ | 17 darted | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dazzle | past | the silver armour of heart | the eyes of the people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | dart | past | heart | past property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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