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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 25

Father Peter greeted the bridegroom, looking at him shrewdly, while the mother and daughter hastened to say all they knew in his favour, and appeared to be satisfied with him as a son-in-law.

Who acts: Father, mother, friends · What happens: greet, look, hasten, say, know, appear · To what, where: bridegroom, all, favour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, mother, friends), 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

nsubjflatdetobjpunctadvclcaseobladvmodpunctmarkdetnsubjccconjconjmarkxcompobjnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:possoblpunctccconjmarkcopxcompcaseoblmarkdetnsubjpunctcasepunctadvclpunctrootFatherPROPNPeterPROPNgreetedVERBtheDETbridegroomNOUN,PUNCTlookingVERBatADPhimPRONshrewdlyADV,PUNCTwhileSCONJtheDETmotherNOUNandCCONJdaughterNOUNhastenedVERBtoPARTsayVERBallDETtheyPRONknewVERBinADPhisPRONfavourNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJappearedVERBtoPARTbeAUXsatisfiedADJwithADPhimPRONasSCONJaDETsonNOUN-PUNCTinADP-PUNCTlawNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FatherFatherPROPNNumber=Sing3 greetednsubj
2PeterPeterPROPNNumber=Sing1 Fatherflat
3greetedgreetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 bridegroomdet
5bridegroombridegroomNOUNNumber=Sing3 greetedobj
6,,PUNCT_7 lookingpunct
7lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 greetedadvcl
8atatADP_9 himcase
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 lookingobl
10shrewdlyshrewdlyADV_7 lookingadvmod
11,,PUNCT_17 hastenedpunct
12whilewhileSCONJ_17 hastenedmark
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 motherdet
14mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing17 hastenednsubj
15andandCCONJ_16 daughtercc
16daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing14 motherconj
17hastenedhastenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 greetedconj
18totoPART_19 saymark
19saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf17 hastenedxcomp
20allallDETPronType=Tot19 sayobj
21theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 knewnsubj
22knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 allacl:relcl
23ininADP_25 favourcase
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 favournmod:poss
25favourfavourNOUNNumber=Sing22 knewobl
26,,PUNCT_28 appearedpunct
27andandCCONJ_28 appearedcc
28appearedappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 greetedconj
29totoPART_31 satisfiedmark
30bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf31 satisfiedcop
31satisfiedsatisfiedADJDegree=Pos28 appearedxcomp
32withwithADP_33 himcase
33himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 satisfiedobl
34asasSCONJ_40 lawmark
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 lawdet
36sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing40 lawnsubj
37--PUNCT_40 lawpunct
38ininADP_40 lawcase
39--PUNCT_38 inpunct
40lawlawNOUNNumber=Sing31 satisfiedadvcl
41..PUNCT_3 greetedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1greet speech: greetpastFatherthe bridegroomvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme
2lookgerundFather not said hereat father; shrewdly propertyvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3hastenparticiplethe mother and daughtertree rules
4say speech: assertto-infinitivethe mother and daughter not said hereallvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent all=Topic
5knowpastfriends = friendfather's favourvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6appearpastFather not said herevn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7isto-infinitiveFather not said herewith father; satisfied propertytree rules
8favourfathernom favour «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 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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