The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 147
In it sat the Fairy Paridamie, and by her side a Princess whose beauty positively dazzled all who saw her.
Who acts: trouble, side · What happens: sit, dazzle, see · To what, where: Fairy Paridamie, Princess beauty, beauty
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, side), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 sat | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Paridamie | det |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Paridamie | compound |
| 6 | Paridamie | Paridamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dazzled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dazzled | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 side | nmod:poss |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dazzled | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 beauty | compound |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | positively | positively | ADV | _ | 17 dazzled | advmod |
| 17 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sat | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 dazzled | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 all | acl:relcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | trouble | the Fairy Paridamie | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paridamie=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dazzle | participle · passive | Paridamie's side | Princess beauty | positively property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | see | past | beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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