The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 55

The young man looked very pleased to see her, and said he thought it must be she who had secretly kept his house for so many days.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: look, see, say, think, keep · To what, where: girl, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 pleased	advmod
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleased	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	obj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 kept	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 kept	aux:pass
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kept	nsubj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 kept	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kept	aux
21	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	22 kept	advmod
22	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 house	nmod:poss
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kept	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 days	case
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 many	advmod
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 days	amod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 kept	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the young man			pleased property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the young man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	think speech: other	past	man	name			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	keep	must · perfect · passive		girl	day	secretly property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme house=Attribute

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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