The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 48

I saw by the way she looked that she would grant your request when she had thought over it,’ and, telling Elsa to wait, she entered the house to seek her mother.

Who acts: I, mother, your · What happens: see, look, grant, think, tell, wait · To what, where: way, request, Elsa, house, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mother, your), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	acl:relcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 grant	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grant	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grant	aux
11	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	ccomp
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 request	nmod:poss
13	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grant	obj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 thought	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	aux
17	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 grant	advcl
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 telling	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 telling	punct
24	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 thought	conj
25	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 telling	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wait	mark
27	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 telling	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 entered	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 entered	nsubj
30	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 entered	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 seek	mark
34	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 entered	advcl
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mother	nmod:poss
36	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seek	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I				by the way	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	past	mother	the way not said here				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute
3	grant	would	mother	your request				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme
4	think speech: other	past · perfect	mother			request		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	mother not said here		Elsa			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent elsa=Recipient clause=Topic
6	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	enter	past	mother	the house				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
8	seek	to-infinitive	mother not said here	mother's mother				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
9	request		your					nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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