The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 160

The Snow-man, however, was not listening to him any more; he was looking into the room where the housekeeper lived, where the stove stood on its four iron legs, and seemed to be just the same size as the Snow-man.

Who acts: Snow man, man, housekeeper, stove · What happens: not listen, look, live, stand, seem, be · To what, where: Bow, room, four iron legs, same size

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow man, man, housekeeper, stove), 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	4 man	det
2	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Snow	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 listening	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	10 listening	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 listening	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 listening	advmod
10	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 listening	obl
13	any	any	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 listening	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 looking	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looking	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looking	aux
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 listening	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 room	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 room	det
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lived	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 lived	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 housekeeper	det
24	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lived	nsubj
25	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looking	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stood	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 stood	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stove	det
29	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	nsubj
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lived	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	35 legs	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 legs	nmod:poss
33	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 legs	nummod
34	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 legs	compound
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stood	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seemed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 seemed	cc
38	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stood	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	44 size	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 size	cop
41	just	just	ADV	_	44 size	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 size	det
43	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 size	amod
44	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seemed	xcomp
45	as	as	ADP	_	49 man	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 man	det
47	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 man	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 Snow	punct
49	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 size	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 listening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not listen	past · progressive	the Snow man		Bow		however property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
2	look	past · progressive	man					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	live	past	the housekeeper			the room		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past	the stove			housekeeper's four iron legs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
5	seem	past	the stove not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive	the stove not said here	the same size			as the Snow man	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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