The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 84

The children danced about with their splendid toys, and no one looked at the tree, except the old nurse, who came and peeped amongst the boughs, just to see if a fig or an apple had been forgotten.

Who acts: children, one, old nurse · What happens: dance, look, come, peep, see, forget · To what, where: fig

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, one, old nurse), 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 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 danced	nsubj
3	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 danced	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 toys	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 toys	nmod:poss
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toys	amod
8	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 danced	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 nurse	punct
18	except	except	ADP	_	21 nurse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nurse	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nurse	amod
21	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 nurse	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 peeped	cc
26	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	conj
27	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	29 boughs	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boughs	det
29	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 peeped	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 see	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 boughs	acl:relcl
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 forgotten	mark
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fig	det
36	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 forgotten	nsubj
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 apple	cc
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 apple	det
39	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fig	conj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 forgotten	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 forgotten	aux:pass
42	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 see	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dance	past	the children		with children's splendid toys; about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	no one		at the tree	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme
3	come	past	the old nurse			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	peep	past	the old nurse not said here		amongst the boughs	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent amongst bough=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	the old nurse not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	forget a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		a fig or a apple		tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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