The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 24
The sight of so much beauty and magnificence almost took his breath away for an instant, but, recovering himself with an effort, he said:
Who acts: sight · What happens: take away, recover, say, sight · To what, where: breath, sight, much beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 | 2 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 beauty | case |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beauty | amod |
| 6 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sight | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 magnificence | cc |
| 8 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beauty | conj |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 took | advmod |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breath | nmod:poss |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 took | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 instant | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 instant | det |
| 16 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recovering | punct |
| 20 | recovering | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 said | ccomp |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 recovering | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 effort | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 effort | det |
| 24 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recovering | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recovering | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | parataxis |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | the sight of much beauty and magnificence | sight's breath | for a instant; almost, away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||
| 2 | recover | gerund | sight | with a effort | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | sight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sight | much beauty and magnificence | 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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