The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 119
He was struck with astonishment at the sight of the chariot, and was gazing at it, when the Enchanter strode up to him, exclaiming:
Who acts: Enchanter · What happens: strike, gaze, stride up, exclaim, sight · To what, where: Meantime, sight, chariot
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enchanter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | aux:pass |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 astonishment | case |
| 5 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chariot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chariot | det |
| 11 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gazing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gazing | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gazing | aux |
| 15 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 struck | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gazing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 strode | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 strode | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Enchanter | det |
| 21 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 strode | nsubj |
| 22 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gazing | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 strode | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 strode | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 exclaiming | punct |
| 27 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 gazing | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · passive | Meantime | the sight of the chariot | with astonishment | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gaze | past · progressive | at chariot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stride up | past | the Enchanter | Meantime | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sight | the chariot | 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 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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