The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 39
What was his amazement at seeing a girl of surpassing loveliness lying in it!
Who acts: amazement, girl, loveliness · What happens: be, see, surpass, lie · To what, where: amazement, girl, loveliness
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amazement, girl, loveliness), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 amazement | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 amazement | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 4 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 seeing | mark |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 amazement | acl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seeing | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 surpassing | mark |
| 10 | surpassing | surpass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 girl | acl |
| 11 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surpassing | obj |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 loveliness | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lying | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 amazement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | floor's amazement | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | floor's amazement not said here | a girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | surpass | gerund | a girl not said here | loveliness | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot loveliness=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | loveliness not said here | loveliness | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
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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