More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 58

The greeting had stopped, but the tears were standing on its cheek, and the tiddy thing looked mazed like in the moonshine and the night air.

Who acts: greeting, tears · What happens: stop, stand, maze · To what, where: cheek, tiddy thing

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greeting, tears), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 greeting	det
2	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	aux
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 standing	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 standing	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tears	det
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 standing	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 standing	aux
10	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stopped	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 cheek	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cheek	nmod:poss
13	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 standing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mazed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mazed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	tiddy	tiddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thing	compound
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mazed	nsubj:pass
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mazed	aux:pass
20	mazed	maze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stopped	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 moonshine	case
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 moonshine	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moonshine	det
24	moonshine	moonshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mazed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 air	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 air	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 air	compound
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 moonshine	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past · perfect	the greeting				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	stand	past · progressive	the tears		face's cheek		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cheek=Location
3	maze	past · passive		the tiddy thing		like the moonshine and the night air	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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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