The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 64

Directly they sat down, a dozen little servants appeared to wait on them, which they did so cleverly and so quickly that Hans could hardly believe they had no wings.

Who acts: dishes, dozen, Hans · What happens: sit down, appear, wait, do, believe, have · To what, where: wings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dishes, dozen, Hans), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 appeared	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dozen	det
7	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 appeared	nsubj
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 servants	amod
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 appeared	nsubj
10	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 wait	mark
12	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 appeared	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wait	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 did	obj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wait	advcl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 cleverly	advmod
20	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	18 did	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 so	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 quickly	advmod
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 appeared	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 believe	mark
25	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 believe	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 believe	aux
27	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	28 believe	advmod
28	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 appeared	advcl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 believe	ccomp
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 wings	det
32	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	dishes = dish		directly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	appear	past	a dozen		quickly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	wait	to-infinitive	a dozen not said here		on dishes = dish	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location
4	do	past	dishes = dish		cleverly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
5	believe	could	Hans		hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	dishes = dish	no wings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

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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