The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 68
Judge of her astonishment when she saw that he was holding in his hand a portrait of herself!
Who acts: Judge, Featherhead · What happens: see, hold, astonish, portray · To what, where: portrait, hand, Judge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Judge, Featherhead), 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 | Judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 astonishment | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 4 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Judge | nmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 holding | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 holding | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 holding | aux |
| 11 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holding | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 portrait | det |
| 16 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holding | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 herself | case |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 portrait | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Judge of Judge's astonishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hold | past · progressive | Featherhead | a portrait of Judge | Featherhead's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | astonish | Judge | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | portray | Judge | nom portrait «communication 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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