More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 15

But by-and-by, his yaller shining hair rose up in the air, and wrapt itself round him till he looked for all the world like a great dandelion puff; and it floated away on the wind over the wall and out o' sight, with a parting skirl of wicked voice and sneering laugh.

Who acts: shining hair, Tom, hair, wicked voice · What happens: shine, rise up, wrapt, look, float away, sneer · To what, where: air, hair, wind, laugh

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shining hair, Tom, hair, wicked voice), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 rose	cc
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 rose	mark
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 by	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 by	cc
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 by	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	2 by	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
9	yaller	yaller	ADV	_	10 shining	advmod
10	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hair	amod
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	nsubj
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 rose	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wrapt	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wrapt	cc
19	wrapt	wrapt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 rose	conj
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 wrapt	obj
21	round	round	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wrapt	obl
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 looked	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looked	nsubj
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wrapt	advcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 world	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 world	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looked	obl
30	like	like	ADP	_	34 puff	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 puff	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 puff	amod
33	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 puff	compound
34	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looked	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 floated	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 floated	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 floated	nsubj
38	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rose	conj
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 floated	advmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 wind	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wind	det
42	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 floated	obl
43	over	over	ADP	_	45 wall	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 wall	det
45	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 floated	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 out	cc
47	out	out	ADV	_	38 floated	conj
48	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	50 sight	case
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	50 sight	punct
50	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 out	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 skirl	punct
52	with	with	ADP	_	55 skirl	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 skirl	det
54	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 skirl	compound
55	skirl	skirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 floated	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 voice	case
57	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 voice	amod
58	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 skirl	nmod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 sneering	cc
60	sneering	sneer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 voice	conj
61	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 sneering	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund				yaller property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise up	past	Tom's shining hair		the air		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location
3	wrapt	infinitive	Tom's shining hair not said here	hair		round Tom	tree rules
4	look	past	Tom			for all world; like a great dandelion puff	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for world=Theme
5	float away	past	hair		the wind	over the wall; with a parting skirl of wicked voice; away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on wind=Source over wall=Trajectory
6	sneer	gerund	hair not said here	laugh			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme
7	skirl		wicked voice				nom skirl «event intransitive»: of=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: «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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