The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 66

Tiidu obeyed, at first without much heart; but somehow the tone of the pipes was sweeter than he had remembered, and as he played, the crowd ceased to walk and chatter, and stood still and silent round him.

Who acts: Tiidu, tone, crowd · What happens: obey, be, remember, play, cease, walk · To what, where: pipes

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 (Tiidu, tone, crowd), 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	2 obeyed	nsubj
2	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heart	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 heart	obl
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 heart	case
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heart	amod
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obeyed	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sweeter	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 sweeter	cc
11	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	13 tone	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tone	det
13	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sweeter	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 pipes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pipes	det
16	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tone	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sweeter	cop
18	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 obeyed	parataxis
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 remembered	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 remembered	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 remembered	aux
22	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 sweeter	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 played	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 played	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 played	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 played	nsubj
27	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 obeyed	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ceased	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 crowd	det
30	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ceased	nsubj
31	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 played	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 walk	mark
33	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ceased	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 chatter	cc
35	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 walk	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stood	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 stood	cc
38	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ceased	conj
39	still	still	ADV	_	38 stood	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 silent	cc
41	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stood	conj
42	round	round	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 silent	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	obey	past	Tiidu			without much heart	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the tone of the pipes			sweet property	tree rules
3	remember	past · perfect	Tiidu				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	play	past	Tiidu				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cease	past	the crowd				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	walk	to-infinitive	the crowd not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	chatter	infinitive	the crowd not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	stand	past	the crowd not said here		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	intonate			the pipes			nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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