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The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 39

Their amazement knew no bounds when they saw a beautiful youth standing before their daughter with the snake’s skin lying on the floor beside him.

Who acts: amazement, eyes, beautiful youth · What happens: know, see, stand, lie, amaze · To what, where: bounds, beautiful youth, floor

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amazement, eyes, beautiful youth), 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

nmod:possnsubjdetobjadvmodnsubjadvcldetamodobjaclcasenmod:possoblcasedetnmod:posscaseobladvclcasedetoblcaseoblpunctrootTheirPRONamazementNOUNknewVERBnoDETboundsNOUNwhenADVtheyPRONsawVERBaDETbeautifulADJyouthNOUNstandingVERBbeforeADPtheirPRONdaughterNOUNwithADPtheDETsnakeNOUN’sPARTskinNOUNlyingVERBonADPtheDETfloorNOUNbesideADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 amazementnmod:poss
2amazementamazementNOUNNumber=Sing3 knewnsubj
3knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4nonoDETPronType=Neg5 boundsdet
5boundsboundNOUNNumber=Plur3 knewobj
6whenwhenADVPronType=Int8 sawadvmod
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs8 sawnsubj
8sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 knewadvcl
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 youthdet
10beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos11 youthamod
11youthyouthNOUNNumber=Sing8 sawobj
12standingstandVERBVerbForm=Ger11 youthacl
13beforebeforeADP_15 daughtercase
14theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 daughternmod:poss
15daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing12 standingobl
16withwithADP_20 skincase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 snakedet
18snakesnakeNOUNNumber=Sing20 skinnmod:poss
19’s'sPART_18 snakecase
20skinskinNOUNNumber=Sing12 standingobl
21lyinglieVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 standingadvcl
22ononADP_24 floorcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 floordet
24floorfloorNOUNNumber=Sing21 lyingobl
25besidebesideADP_26 himcase
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 lyingobl
27..PUNCT_3 knewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowpasteyes's amazementno boundsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus
2seepasteyes = eyea beautiful youthvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus
3standgerunda beautiful youth not said herebefore eyes's daughterwith the snake's skinvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before daughter=Location
4liegerunda beautiful youth not said herethe floorbeside amazementvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
5amazeeyes = eyenom amazement «feeling 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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