The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 29

He could not help admiring everything he saw, and the deft way in which the hands waited on him, though they sometimes appeared so suddenly that they made him jump.

Who acts: Love, deft way, hands · What happens: not help, admire, see, wait, appear, make · To what, where: deft way, everything, Love

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Love, deft way, hands), 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	4 help	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	admiring	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 help	xcomp
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 admiring	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everything	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 way	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	deft	deft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	obl:unmarked
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 waited	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hands	det
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 waited	nsubj
18	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 way	acl:relcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 waited	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 appeared	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 appeared	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 appeared	nsubj
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 appeared	advmod
25	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 waited	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 suddenly	advmod
27	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	25 appeared	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 made	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 made	nsubj
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 appeared	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 made	obj
32	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 made	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not help	could	Love	the deft way			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	admire not said to happen	gerund	the deft way not said here	everything			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	see	past	Love				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	wait	past	the hands		the deft way	on Love	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
5	appear	past	hands = hand			sometimes, suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	past	hands = hand	Love			tree rules
7	jump	infinitive	Love not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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