The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 44

When they saw his tiny stature anti simple attire the strangers looked at each other doubtfully, not knowing whether to accept or refuse him.

Who acts: names, strangers · What happens: see, look, not know, accept, refuse · To what, where: tiny stature, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (names, strangers), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looked	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stature	nmod:poss
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stature	amod
6	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	anti	anti	ADV	_	8 simple	advmod
8	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 attire	amod
9	attire	attire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strangers	det
11	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 each	case
14	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	12 looked	obl
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 each	fixed
16	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knowing	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 knowing	advmod
19	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 looked	advcl
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 accept	mark
21	to	to	PART	_	22 accept	mark
22	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 knowing	xcomp
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 refuse	cc
24	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 accept	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 refuse	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	names = name	Prince's tiny stature		tree rules
2	look	past	the strangers		at each; doubtfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
3	not know	gerund	the strangers not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	accept	to-infinitive	the strangers not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	refuse	infinitive	the strangers not said here	Prince		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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