The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 142

Only one of them seemed uneasy, and every now and then glanced in the direction of his host.

Who acts: one · What happens: seem, glance

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (one), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seemed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seemed	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 glanced	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 glanced	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 glanced	det
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 glanced	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 then	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 glanced	advmod
13	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 direction	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 direction	det
16	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glanced	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 host	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 host	nmod:poss
19	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 direction	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	one of numbers					uneasy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	glance	past	one of numbers not said here				now; then	in the direction of Jackal's host	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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