The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 91

The music was at its gayest, and the dance at its merriest, when Eisenkopf looked in at the window.

Who acts: music, dance, Eisenkopf · What happens: be, look in

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, dance, Eisenkopf), 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 music	det
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gayest	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gayest	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 gayest	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gayest	nmod:poss
6	gayest	gay	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 merriest	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 merriest	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dance	det
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 merriest	nsubj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 merriest	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 merriest	nmod:poss
13	merriest	merry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 gayest	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 looked	advmod
16	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gayest	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 looked	compound:prt
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 window	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gayest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the music	gay property	tree rules
2	be		the dance		tree rules
3	look in	past	Eisenkopf	at the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=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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