The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 113

All the cooks stood round to look on, and could not help admiring the quick, clever way in which he set to work.

Who acts: cooks, cook · What happens: stand, look on, not help, admire, set, work · To what, where: quick clever way

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cooks, cook), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 cooks	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cooks	det
3	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 look	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 help	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 help	advmod
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	advcl
14	admiring	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 help	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
16	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 quick	punct
18	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 admiring	obl:unmarked
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 set	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 set	nsubj
23	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 way	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 work	mark
25	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 set	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	all cooks			round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look on	to-infinitive	all cooks not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	not help	could	all cooks not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	admire not said to happen	gerund	all cooks not said here	the quick clever way			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	set	past	cook		the quick clever way		tree rules
6	work	to-infinitive	cook not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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