The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 4

These signed to him with eye and foot to go back, for that this was enchanted ground; but he did not understand them, and thought their pretty gestures were a welcome.

Who acts: prince, pretty gestures, eye · What happens: sign, go back, enchant, not understand, think, be · To what, where: These, prince, eye, welcome · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, pretty gestures, eye), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 signed	nsubj:pass
2	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signed	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 eye	case
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 foot	cc
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eye	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 foot	acl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ground	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	18 ground	case
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 ground	mark
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 ground	det
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 enchanted	aux:pass
17	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ground	amod
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 understand	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 understand	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 understand	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 understand	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 understand	advmod
24	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 signed	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 understand	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 thought	cc
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 understand	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 gestures	nmod:poss
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 gestures	amod
31	gestures	gesture	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 welcome	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 welcome	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 welcome	det
34	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 thought	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 signed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sign	participle · passive		These	prince	with eye and foot	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with eye=Theme
2	go back	to-infinitive				for this enchanted ground	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	enchant	past · passive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	not understand	past · do-support	prince	eye			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	past	prince not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	eye's pretty gestures	a welcome			tree rules
7	gesture		eye				nom gesture «act intransitive»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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