The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 53

'Perhaps, while you are about the wolf's house seeing after the bows, it would do no harm if you were to make that knot-hole in the wall a little bigger,' said he. '

Who acts: you, house, bow, Wolf · What happens: be, see, do, make, say · To what, where: harm, knot hole, wall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, house, bow, Wolf), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Perhaps	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 house	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 house	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 house	cop
7	about	about	ADP	_	11 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 wolf	case
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	advcl
12	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 house	acl
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 bows	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bows	det
15	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seeing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 house	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 harm	det
21	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	obj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 make	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 do	advcl
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 hole	det
28	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hole	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 knot	punct
30	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 wall	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wall	det
33	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hole	nmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 little	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bigger	obl:unmarked
36	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 wall	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 said	nsubj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you				about the wolf's house	tree rules
2	see	gerund	the wolf's house not said here			after the bows		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	do	would	bow	no harm			perhaps property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
4	make a condition, not said to happen	past	you	that knot hole	the wall			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product
5	say speech: assert	past	Wolf					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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