The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 13

The maidens, who were sitting at the door of their hut for coolness, saw him approaching, and the two elder were much alarmed, for they remembered the old woman’s warning; but the youngest said: “Never before have I seen anyone like him; let me have one look.”

Who acts: maidens, man, youngest, old woman · What happens: sit, see, approach, alarm, remember, say · To what, where: door, man, two elder, warning, anyone, youngest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, man, youngest, old woman), 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 maidens	det
2	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sitting	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 maidens	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hut	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hut	nmod:poss
12	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 coolness	case
14	coolness	coolness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hut	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 maidens	punct
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	obj
18	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 saw	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 alarmed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 alarmed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 elder	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 elder	nummod
23	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 alarmed	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 alarmed	aux:pass
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 alarmed	advmod
26	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 approaching	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 remembered	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 remembered	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 remembered	nsubj
30	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 alarmed	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 woman	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woman	amod
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 warning	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 woman	case
35	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 remembered	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 said	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 youngest	det
39	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 said	nsubj
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	conj
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 seen	punct
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	47 seen	punct
43	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 before	advmod
44	before	before	ADV	_	47 seen	advmod
45	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 seen	aux
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 seen	nsubj
47	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 said	ccomp
48	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	47 seen	obj
49	like	like	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 anyone	nmod
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 let	punct
52	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 saw	ccomp
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 let	obj
54	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 let	xcomp
55	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 look	nummod
56	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 have	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 let	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	52 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the maidens		the door of maidens's hut for coolness		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
2	see	past	the maidens	man			tree rules
3	approach	gerund	man not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	alarm	past · passive		the two elder			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	remember	past	maidens = maiden	the old woman's warning			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent warning=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	the youngest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	see in a quote	present · perfect	the youngest = young	anyone		like man; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus
8	let in a quote	infinitive		the youngest = young			tree rules
9	have in a quote	infinitive	the youngest = young not said here	one look			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
10	warn		the old woman				nom warning «communication transitive»: 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 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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