The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 46

Seeing him make faces, and eat very little, his daughter, who sat beside him, inquired if his dinner was not to his taste.

Who acts: you, daughter, dinner · What happens: see, make, eat, sit, inquire, not be · To what, where: father, faces, little

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, daughter, dinner), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 make	csubj
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Seeing	obj
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eat	cc
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	parataxis
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 little	advmod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 daughter	acl:relcl
16	beside	beside	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 inquired	punct
19	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 taste	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dinner	nmod:poss
22	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taste	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 taste	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 taste	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 taste	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 taste	nmod:poss
27	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 inquired	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		father		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	make	imperative	you not said here	faces		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product
3	eat	present		little		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
4	sit	past	father's daughter		beside father	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
5	inquire speech: other	past	father's daughter not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	father's dinner		to father's taste	tree rules

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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