--- title: Seeing a good-natured looking woman standing at the door of a house,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Seeing a good-natured looking woman standing at the door of a house, they asked her if she would give them a night's lodging, and she was so pleased with their pretty faces and nice manners that she welcomed them warmly. Who acts: children, natured looking woman, woman. A sentence of «The Orange Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/47/) [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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/) / 47 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 47 Seeing a good-natured looking woman standing at the door of a house, they asked her if she would give them a night's lodging, and she was so pleased with their pretty faces and nice manners that she welcomed them warmly. **Who acts:** children, natured looking woman, woman · **What happens:** see, look, stand, ask, give, be · **To what, where:** natured looking woman, door, woman, lodging, children This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, natured looking woman, woman), 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:pg3027:33:47 # text = Seeing a good-natured looking woman standing at the door of a house, they asked her if she would give them a night's lodging, and she was so pleased with their pretty faces and nice manners that she welcomed them warmly. 1 Seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 natured natured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 7 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 8 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 lodging lodging NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 37 conj _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 welcomed welcome VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 warmly warmly ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | a natured looking woman | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **stand** | gerund | a natured looking woman *not said here* | | | the door of a house | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | children *= child* | | woman | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | woman | a night's lodging | children *= child* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient lodging=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | woman | | | | | with children's pretty faces and nice manners; pleased *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **welcome** | past | woman | children *= child* | | | | warmly *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/48/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/)