The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 41

He wandered through the streets for many days, seeking some one who wanted a servant; but though more than one person would have been glad to engage him, they seemed to Tiidu not the sort of people to help him to get rich quickly.

Who acts: Tiidu, one, one person, owners · What happens: wander, seek, want, be, engage, seem · To what, where: streets, one, servant, Tiidu, sort, people

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, one, one person, owners), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 streets	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 streets	det
5	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wandered	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wandered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seeking	punct
10	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wandered	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seeking	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 servant	det
16	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 seemed	cc
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 glad	mark
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	22 one	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	20 more	fixed
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 person	nummod
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 glad	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 glad	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 glad	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 glad	cop
27	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 seemed	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 engage	mark
29	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 glad	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 engage	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 glad	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seemed	nsubj
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 Tiidu	case
35	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 seemed	obl
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 sort	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sort	det
38	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seemed	xcomp
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 people	case
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sort	nmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 help	mark
42	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 seemed	advcl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 help	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 get	mark
45	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 help	xcomp
46	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 get	xcomp
47	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	45 get	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	Tiidu			the streets	day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory
2	seek	gerund	Tiidu not said here	some one					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	want	past	some one	a servant					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot servant=Theme
4	is	would · perfect	one person					glad property	tree rules
5	engage	to-infinitive	one person not said here	Tiidu					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	seem	past	owners = owner	the sort of people	Tiidu				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	help	to-infinitive	owners = owner not said here	Tiidu					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
8	get	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here					quickly, rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	sort			people					nom sort «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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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