The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 47

While Minnikin was now standing there looking about him, he cast his eye on a large chest.

Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: stand, look, cast · To what, where: eye, large chest

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Minnikin), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 standing	mark
2	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 standing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 standing	advmod
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cast	advcl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 standing	advmod
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 standing	advcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 standing	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cast	nsubj
12	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eye	nmod:poss
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cast	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 chest	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 chest	det
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 chest	amod
18	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cast	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	Minnikin		there	now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	Minnikin not said here				about Minnikin	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
3	cast	past	Minnikin	Minnikin's eye	a large chest			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on chest=Destination

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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