The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 91

During the meal he stole many glances at the maiden, and would even have spoken to her, but she gave him no encouragement.

Who acts: plenty, girl · What happens: steal, speak, give · To what, where: many glances, maiden, girl, encouragement, plenty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, girl), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 meal	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meal	det
3	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stole	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stole	nsubj
5	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 glances	amod
7	glances	glance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stole	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 maiden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maiden	det
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stole	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spoken	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spoken	cc
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 spoken	aux
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 spoken	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 spoken	aux
16	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 stole	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spoken	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spoken	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	iobj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 encouragement	det
25	encouragement	encouragement	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	steal	past	plenty	many glances		the maiden	during the meal	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glance=Theme
2	speak speech: other	would · perfect			girl			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
3	give	past	girl	no encouragement	plenty			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient encouragement=Theme

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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