The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 118

At first the sight of them renewed her grief; but presently their charms so gained upon her that she forgot her melancholy in providing them with nursery-maids, cradle-rockers, and ladies-in-waiting, and in sending hither and thither for swings and dolls and tops, and bushels of the finest sweetmeats.

Who acts: sight, charms · What happens: renew, gain, forget, provide, send, sight · To what, where: grief, waiting, melancholy, charms, bushels, feelings

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, charms), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 renewed	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sight	det
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 renewed	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sight	nmod
7	renewed	renew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grief	nmod:poss
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 renewed	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gained	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 gained	cc
12	presently	presently	ADV	_	16 gained	advmod
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 charms	nmod:poss
14	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gained	nsubj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 gained	advmod
16	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 renewed	conj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gained	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 forgot	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forgot	nsubj
21	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gained	advcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 melancholy	nmod:poss
23	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forgot	obj
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	25 providing	mark
25	providing	provide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 forgot	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 providing	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 maids	case
28	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 maids	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 nursery	punct
30	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 providing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rockers	punct
32	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rockers	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 cradle	punct
34	rockers	rocker	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 maids	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 waiting	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 waiting	cc
37	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 waiting	nsubj
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 waiting	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 waiting	case
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 in	punct
41	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 renewed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sending	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sending	cc
44	in	in	SCONJ	_	45 sending	mark
45	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 renewed	advcl
46	hither	hither	ADV	_	45 sending	advmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 thither	cc
48	thither	thither	ADV	_	46 hither	conj
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 swings	case
50	swings	swing	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 sending	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 dolls	cc
52	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 swings	conj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 tops	cc
54	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 swings	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 bushels	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 bushels	cc
57	bushels	bushel	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 sending	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 sweetmeats	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 sweetmeats	det
60	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	61 sweetmeats	amod
61	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 bushels	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 renewed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	renew	past	the sight of feelings	sight's grief	waiting		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grief=Patient
2	gain	past	feelings's charms			upon sight; presently property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	forget	past	sight	sight's melancholy			tree rules
4	provide	gerund	sight not said here	charms = charm		with nursery maids and cradle rockers	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with maid=Theme
5	send	gerund	the sight of feelings not said here	bushels of the finest sweetmeats		for swings and dolls and tops; hither property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	sight			feelings = feeling			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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