The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 110

There was no moon, and it was the night of Hallowe’en, and everyone was burning nuts and catching apples in a tub of water with their hands tied, and playing all sorts of other games, till the Shifty Lad grew quite tired of waiting for them to get to bed.

Who acts: moon, everyone, Shifty Lad, Lad · What happens: be, burn, catch, tie, play, grow · To what, where: night, nuts, apples, tub, hands, sorts

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, everyone, Shifty Lad, Lad), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 night	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 night	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 night	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 night	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl:unmarked
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Hallowe’en	case
12	Hallowe’en	Hallowe'en	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 night	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 burning	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 burning	cc
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 burning	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 burning	aux
17	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
18	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 burning	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 catching	cc
20	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 burning	conj
21	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 catching	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 tub	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tub	det
24	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 catching	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tub	nmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 hands	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 catching	obl
30	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 hands	acl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 playing	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 playing	cc
33	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 burning	parataxis
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 sorts	det
35	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 playing	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 games	case
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 games	amod
38	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sorts	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 grew	punct
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	44 grew	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Lad	det
42	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Lad	amod
43	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 grew	nsubj
44	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 playing	conj
45	quite	quite	ADV	_	46 tired	advmod
46	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 grew	xcomp
47	of	of	SCONJ	_	48 waiting	mark
48	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 tired	advcl
49	for	for	SCONJ	_	52 get	mark
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 get	nsubj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 get	mark
52	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 waiting	advcl
53	to	to	ADP	_	54 bed	case
54	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 get	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no moon		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	moon	the night		of Hallowe’en	tree rules
3	burn	past · progressive	everyone	nuts			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
4	catch	gerund	everyone not said here	apples	a tub of water	with apples's hands	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme
5	tie	participle		apples's hands not said here			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	play	gerund		all sorts of other games			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
7	grow	past	the Shifty Lad			tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	wait	gerund	the Shifty Lad not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	get	to-infinitive	Lad			to bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result
10	sort			other games			nom sort «cognition 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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