The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 50

The gnome, who had secretly been keeping an eye upon them, was very pleased with himself for having so well understood the heart of a woman; and the princess seemed to him even more charming than before.

Who acts: gnome, princess · What happens: keep, be, have, seem, charm · To what, where: eye, gnome

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnome, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gnome	det
2	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pleased	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keeping	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 keeping	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 keeping	aux
6	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	8 keeping	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 keeping	aux
8	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gnome	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eye	det
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeping	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keeping	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gnome	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pleased	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 pleased	advmod
16	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 pleased	obl
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 having	mark
20	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 pleased	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 well	advmod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 having	advmod
23	understood	understood	ADP	_	25 heart	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 heart	det
25	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 having	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 woman	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 woman	det
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heart	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seemed	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 princess	det
32	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seemed	nsubj
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pleased	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seemed	obl
36	even	even	ADV	_	37 more	advmod
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 charming	advmod
38	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 seemed	xcomp
39	than	than	ADP	_	40 before	case
40	before	before	ADV	_	38 charming	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past · perfect · progressive	the gnome	a eye		upon Brunhilda; secretly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon they=Location
2	is	past	the gnome			with gnome; pleased property	tree rules
3	have	gerund	the gnome not said here			understood the heart of a woman; well property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	the princess		gnome		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	charm	gerund	the princess not said here			before property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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