The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 122

He glanced about him and noticed that the girls were fair to look upon, as they pounded maize or stewed something that smelt very nice in earthen pots--especially if you were hot and tired; and when one of the maidens turned round and offered the stranger some dinner, he made up his mind that he would wed her and nobody else.

Who acts: youth, girls, you, one · What happens: glance, notice, be, look, pound, stew · To what, where: maize, earthen pots, stranger, mind, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, girls, you, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 glanced	nsubj
2	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 glanced	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 noticed	cc
6	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glanced	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 fair	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girls	det
9	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fair	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fair	cop
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 noticed	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fair	csubj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 look	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pounded	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 pounded	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pounded	nsubj
18	pounded	pound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 noticed	conj
19	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pounded	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 something	cc
21	stewed	stew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 something	amod
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 maize	conj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 smelt	nsubj
24	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 something	acl:relcl
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 nice	advmod
26	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 smelt	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 pots	case
28	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pots	amod
29	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 smelt	obl
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 hot	punct
31	especially	especially	ADV	_	35 hot	advmod
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 hot	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 hot	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hot	cop
35	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 smelt	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tired	cc
37	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hot	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 turned	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 turned	cc
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 one	advmod
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 turned	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 maidens	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 maidens	det
44	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 one	nmod
45	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glanced	parataxis
46	round	round	ADV	_	45 turned	advmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 offered	cc
48	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 turned	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 stranger	det
50	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 offered	obj
51	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	52 dinner	det
52	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 offered	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 made	punct
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 made	nsubj
55	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glanced	conj
56	up	up	ADP	_	55 made	compound:prt
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 mind	nmod:poss
58	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 made	obj
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 wed	mark
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 wed	nsubj
61	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 wed	aux
62	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 made	advcl
63	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 wed	obj
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 nobody	cc
65	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 glanced	conj
66	else	else	ADV	_	65 nobody	advmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 glanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glance	past	youth			about father	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
2	notice	past	youth not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the girls			fair property	tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	pound	past	girls = girl	maize			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maize=Product
6	stew	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	smelt	present			earthen pots	nice property	tree rules
8	is a condition, not said to happen	past	you			especially, hot property	tree rules
9	be		you not said here				tree rules
10	turn round	past	one of the maidens			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
11	offer	past	one of the maidens not said here	the stranger			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Goal dinner=Theme
12	make up	past	youth	youth's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
13	wed	would	youth	maiden			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
14	mind		youth				nom mind «cognition 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 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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