The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 31

Or perhaps Puck would spend his night in plaiting together the manes and tails of two of the horses, so that it would take the grooms hours of labour to get them right in the morning, while Puck, hidden among the hay in the loft, would peep out to watch them, enjoying himself amazingly all the time.

Who acts: Puck, it · What happens: spend, plait, take, get, hide, peep out · To what, where: manes, Puck, hay

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Puck, it), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	5 spend	cc
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 spend	advmod
3	Puck	Puck	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spend	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spend	aux
5	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 night	nmod:poss
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spend	obj
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 plaiting	mark
9	plaiting	plait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 spend	advcl
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 plaiting	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 manes	det
12	manes	manis	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plaiting	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tails	cc
14	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 manes	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 two	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 tails	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 horses	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horses	det
19	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 two	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 take	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spend	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hours	det
27	grooms	groom	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hours	compound
28	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 take	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 labour	case
30	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hours	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 get	mark
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	advcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 get	obj
34	right	right	ADV	_	37 morning	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 morning	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 morning	det
37	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obl:unmarked
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Puck	punct
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 Puck	mark
40	Puck	Puck	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 get	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 hidden	punct
42	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 Puck	acl
43	among	among	ADP	_	45 hay	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 hay	det
45	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hidden	obl
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 loft	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 loft	det
48	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hay	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 peep	punct
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 peep	aux
51	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spend	conj
52	out	out	ADP	_	51 peep	compound:prt
53	to	to	PART	_	54 watch	mark
54	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 peep	advcl
55	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 watch	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 enjoying	punct
57	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 spend	advcl
58	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	57 enjoying	obj
59	amazingly	amazingly	ADV	_	57 enjoying	advmod
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	62 time	det:predet
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 time	det
62	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 enjoying	obl:unmarked
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	would	Puck			night	perhaps property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	plait	gerund	Puck not said here	the manes and tails of two of the horses			together property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manis=Patient
3	take	would	it			hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	get	to-infinitive		manes = manis		morning	Puck obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	hide	participle		Puck not said here	the hay in the loft			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among hay=Location
6	peep out	would	Puck not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	watch	to-infinitive	Puck not said here	manes = manis				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	enjoy	gerund	Puck not said here	Puck		time	amazingly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus

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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