The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 47

Seeing a good-natured looking woman standing at the door of a house, they asked her if she would give them a night's lodging, and she was so pleased with their pretty faces and nice manners that she welcomed them warmly.

Who acts: children, natured looking woman, woman · What happens: see, look, stand, ask, give, be · To what, where: natured looking woman, door, woman, lodging, children

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, natured looking woman, woman), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 asked	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 natured	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
5	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
6	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obj
8	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 woman	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 standing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 door	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 give	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	ccomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 night	det
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lodging	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 night	case
27	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pleased	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pleased	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pleased	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 pleased	cop
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 pleased	advmod
33	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 asked	parataxis
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 faces	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 faces	nmod:poss
36	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 faces	amod
37	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pleased	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 manners	cc
39	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 manners	amod
40	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	37 faces	conj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 welcomed	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 welcomed	nsubj
43	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 pleased	advcl
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 welcomed	obj
45	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	43 welcomed	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	children = child not said here	a natured looking woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	a natured looking woman not said here			the door of a house		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
4	ask speech: ask	past	children = child		woman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give a condition, not said to happen	would	woman	a night's lodging	children = child			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient lodging=Theme
6	is	past	woman				with children's pretty faces and nice manners; pleased property	tree rules
7	welcome	past	woman	children = child			warmly property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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