The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 72

The old man seized her hands eagerly, but no time was given him to ask any questions, for the maiden drew him into the house, and set food before him, and waited on him herself.

Who acts: old man, maiden · What happens: seize, give, ask, draw, wait · To what, where: hands, time, man, questions, house, life

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, maiden), 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	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seized	obj
7	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	4 seized	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 given	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 given	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux:pass
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seized	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 given	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 ask	mark
16	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 given	advcl
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 questions	det
18	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ask	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drew	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 drew	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 maiden	det
22	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 drew	nsubj
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 given	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drew	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 food	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 food	cc
30	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 food	amod
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 food	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 waited	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 waited	cc
36	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 waited	obl
39	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 waited	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the old man	life's hands		eagerly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	give	past · passive		no time	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		any questions			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
4	draw	past	the maiden	man		into the house result; set food before man obl	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into house=Result
5	wait	past	the old man not said here	life		on man	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location

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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