The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 100

Yes; but not so swift as a Stalo, as Andras found out when he stopped to rest, and heard the pipe playing!

Who acts: you, Andras, pipe · What happens: not swift, find out, stop, rest, hear, play · To what, where: pipe

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Andras, pipe), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 swift	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 swift	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 swift	cc
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 swift	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 swift	advmod
6	swift	swift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 Stalo	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Stalo	det
9	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 swift	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 found	mark
12	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swift	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 found	compound:prt
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 stopped	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stopped	nsubj
17	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 rest	mark
19	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stopped	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heard	cc
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swift	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pipe	det
24	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
25	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 heard	xcomp
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 swift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not swift	imperative	you not said here		as a Stalo	tree rules
2	find out	past	Andras			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	stop	past	Andras			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	rest	to-infinitive	Andras not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	past		the pipe		tree rules
6	play	gerund	the pipe not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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