The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 11

This had kept their hands very soft and white, like the hands of a girl, and when the water was passed through the lattice, and the servant saw the small, delicate fingers, he said to himself: ‘A maiden must indeed be lovely if she has a hand like that.’

Who acts: servant, maiden, girl · What happens: keep, pass, see, say, be, have · To what, where: This, water, lattice, small delicate fingers, servant, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, maiden, girl), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 kept	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	aux
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 soft	nsubj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 soft	advmod
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kept	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 white	cc
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soft	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hands	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hands	det
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 soft	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 girl	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 girl	det
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hands	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 passed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 passed	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 passed	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passed	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 passed	aux:pass
23	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kept	conj
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 lattice	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lattice	det
26	lattice	lattice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saw	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 servant	det
30	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fingers	det
33	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fingers	amod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 small	punct
35	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fingers	amod
36	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 saw	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 saw	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 himself	case
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 said	obl
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	49 lovely	punct
43	‘	'	PUNCT	_	49 lovely	punct
44	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 maiden	det
45	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lovely	nsubj
46	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 lovely	aux
47	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	49 lovely	advmod
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 lovely	cop
49	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 said	ccomp
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 has	mark
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 has	nsubj
52	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 lovely	advcl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 hand	det
54	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 has	obj
55	like	like	ADP	_	56 that	case
56	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 hand	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past · perfect · passive		This			soft property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	pass	past · passive		the water		the lattice		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through lattice=Destination
3	see	past	the servant	the small delicate fingers				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	servant		servant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
5	is	must	a maiden				indeed, lovely property	tree rules
6	have a condition, not said to happen	present	girl	a hand			like that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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