The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 74
At the sight of so much splendor the sorceress was not only dazzled, but so struck, that after she had prostrated herself before the throne, she could not open her lips to thank the fairy, as she had proposed.
Who acts: sorceress · What happens: not dazzle, strike, prostrate, not open, thank, propose · To what, where: sorceress, sight, that, lips, fairy, much splendor
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorceress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dazzled | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 splendor | case |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 splendor | amod |
| 7 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sorceress | det |
| 9 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dazzled | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 dazzled | advmod |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 dazzled | advmod |
| 13 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 struck | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 struck | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 struck | advmod |
| 17 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 dazzled | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prostrated | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 prostrated | nsubj |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 23 prostrated | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 prostrated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 prostrated | aux |
| 23 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 dazzled | conj |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 prostrated | obj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 throne | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 throne | det |
| 27 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prostrated | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 open | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 open | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 open | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 open | advmod |
| 32 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dazzled | parataxis |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 lips | nmod:poss |
| 34 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 open | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 thank | mark |
| 36 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 open | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 fairy | det |
| 38 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thank | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 proposed | punct |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 proposed | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 proposed | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 proposed | aux |
| 43 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 thank | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dazzle | past · passive | the sorceress | the sight of much splendor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | strike | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | prostrate | past · perfect · passive | that | before the throne | sorceress nsubj:pass | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not open | could | sorceress | sorceress's lips | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lip=Theme | ||||
| 5 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | sorceress not said here | the fairy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | ||||
| 6 | propose | past · perfect | sorceress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | sight | much splendor | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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