The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 101
The Magician himself was not a little astonished at its beauty, and could hardly believe his eyes.
Who acts: Magician · What happens: not be, believe · To what, where: beauty, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician), 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 Magician | det |
| 2 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 Magician | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 astonished | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 astonished | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 astonished | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 beauty | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 astonished | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 believe | cc |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 believe | aux |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 16 believe | advmod |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 astonished | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 believe | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Magician magician | palace's beauty | a little obl:unmarked; astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | believe | could | magician's eyes | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus |
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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