--- title: He glanced about him and noticed that the girls were fair to look up… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He glanced about him and noticed that the girls were fair to look upon, as they pounded maize or stewed something that smelt very nice in earthen pots--especially if you were hot and tired; and when one of the maidens turned round and offered the stranger some dinner, he made up his mind that he wou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/20/122/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/20/) / 122 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 122 He glanced about him and noticed that the girls were fair to look upon, as they pounded maize or stewed something that smelt very nice in earthen pots--especially if you were hot and tired; and when one of the maidens turned round and offered the stranger some dinner, he made up his mind that he would wed her and nobody else. **Who acts:** youth, girls, you, one · **What happens:** glance, notice, be, look, pound, stew · **To what, where:** maize, earthen pots, stranger, mind, maiden · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, girls, you, one), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:20:122 # text = He glanced about him and noticed that the girls were fair to look upon, as they pounded maize or stewed something that smelt very nice in earthen pots--especially if you were hot and tired; and when one of the maidens turned round and offered the stranger some dinner, he made up his mind that he would wed her and nobody else. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 glanced glance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 csubj _ _ 14 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 pounded pound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 maize maize NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 stewed stew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 conj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 smelt smelt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 earthen earthen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 especially especially ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 40 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 41 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nsubj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 45 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 46 round round ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 51 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 52 det _ _ 52 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 56 up up ADP RP _ 55 compound:prt _ _ 57 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 59 that that SCONJ IN _ 62 mark _ _ 60 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 61 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 62 aux _ _ 62 wed wed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 advcl _ _ 63 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 obj _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 conj _ _ 66 else else ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glance** | past | youth | | | | | about father | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | | 2 | **notice** | past | youth *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | the girls | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **pound** | past | girls *= girl* | maize | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maize=Product | | 6 | **stew** | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **smelt** | present | | | | earthen pots | | nice *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | | | especially, hot *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **be** | | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **turn round** | past | one of the maidens | | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **offer** | past | one of the maidens *not said here* | the stranger | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Goal dinner=Theme | | 12 | **make up** | past | youth | youth's mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 13 | **wed** | would | youth | maiden | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 14 | **mind** | | youth | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/20/121/) - next →: [Opening, part 21, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/21/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/20/)