The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 6
Tiidu’s pipes set everybody’s legs dancing.
Who acts: pipes · What happens: set, dance · To what, where: legs
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pipes), 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 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tiidu | case |
| 3 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 legs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 everybody | case |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obj |
| 8 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 set | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Tiidu's pipes | everybody's legs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | Tiidu's pipes not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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