The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 57

He smiled to himself as he looked at the dusty track, and perceived that though the marks of wolves' feet were many, not a single guest was to be seen anywhere.

Who acts: Wolf, marks · What happens: smile, look, perceive, be, not see, mark · To what, where: Wolf, single guest, feet

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 (Wolf, marks), 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 smiled	nsubj
2	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 smiled	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 looked	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smiled	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 track	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 track	det
10	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 track	amod
11	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 perceived	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 perceived	cc
14	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smiled	conj
15	that	that	ADV	_	14 perceived	advmod
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 many	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 marks	det
18	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 many	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 feet	case
20	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 feet	nmod:poss
21	'	's	PART	_	20 wolves	case
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 marks	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 many	cop
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 perceived	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seen	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 seen	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 guest	det
28	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 guest	amod
29	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux:pass
31	to	to	PART	_	33 seen	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 seen	aux:pass
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 many	parataxis
34	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 seen	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	smile	past	Wolf		Wolf		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	look	past	Wolf			at the dusty track	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at track=Theme
3	perceive	past	Wolf not said here			that property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the marks of wolves's feet			many property	tree rules
5	not see	past · passive		a single guest		anywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	mark			wolves's feet			nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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