The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 30

The nursery-maid and the little boy came down at once to look for him, but, though they were so near him that they almost trod on him, they did not notice him.

Who acts: nursery maid, maid · What happens: come down, look, be, tread, not notice · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nursery maid, maid), 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 maid	det
2	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maid	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 nursery	punct
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 boy	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maid	conj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 came	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 came	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 him	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 him	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 him	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 him	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 him	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 him	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 him	advmod
24	near	near	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 trod	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trod	nsubj
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	29 trod	advmod
29	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 him	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trod	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 notice	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 notice	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 notice	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 notice	advmod
36	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 trod	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 notice	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the nursery maid and the little boy		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	look	to-infinitive	the nursery maid and the little boy not said here		for boy	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
3	is	past	maid		near boy	tree rules
4	tread	past	maid		on boy; almost property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory
5	not notice	past · do-support	maid	boy		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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