The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 13

It seemed to me that her loveliness, which fairly dazzled me at first, had absolutely deprived her of the use of any of her other gifts or graces.

Who acts: It, loveliness, Sylvia · What happens: seem, dazzle, deprive, gift · To what, where: me, loveliness

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, loveliness, Sylvia), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 deprived	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 loveliness	nmod:poss
7	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deprived	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dazzled	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 dazzled	nsubj
10	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	11 dazzled	advmod
11	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loveliness	acl:relcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 dazzled	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 first	case
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 dazzled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 loveliness	punct
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 deprived	aux
17	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	18 deprived	advmod
18	deprived	deprive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seemed	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 deprived	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 use	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 use	det
22	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deprived	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 any	case
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 use	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 gifts	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 gifts	nmod:poss
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gifts	amod
28	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 any	nmod
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 graces	cc
30	graces	grace	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gifts	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	dazzle	past	Sylvia's loveliness	me		fairly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
3	deprive	past · perfect · passive		Sylvia's loveliness		of the use of any; absolutely property	tree rules
4	gift		Sylvia				nom gift «possession 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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