The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 61

But with the first notes, the leg of every man in the crowd was lifted high, and they danced to the sound of the music the whole day till darkness fell, and there was no light to hang the musician by.

Who acts: legs, darkness, light · What happens: lift, dance, fall, be, hang · To what, where: leg, sound, whole day, musician

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, darkness, light), 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	_	16 lifted	cc
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 notes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 notes	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 notes	amod
5	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lifted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 notes	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leg	det
8	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lifted	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 man	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leg	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 crowd	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crowd	det
14	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lifted	aux:pass
16	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lifted	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 danced	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 danced	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 danced	nsubj
21	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lifted	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 sound	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sound	det
24	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 danced	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 music	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 music	det
27	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sound	nmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 day	det
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 danced	obl:unmarked
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 fell	mark
32	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fell	nsubj
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 day	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 was	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 was	cc
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 danced	conj
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 light	det
39	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 was	nsubj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 hang	mark
41	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 light	acl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 musician	det
43	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hang	obj
44	by	by	ADP	_	41 hang	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past · passive		the leg of every man in the crowd			with the first notes; high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	dance	past	legs = leg		the sound of the music	day		vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to sound=Trajectory
3	fall	past	darkness	the whole day not said here				vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient day=Result
4	be	past	no light		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hang	to-infinitive	no light not said here	the musician				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musician=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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