The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 42

Puck was careful not always to play his tricks in the same place, but visited one village after another, so that everyone trembled lest he should be the next victim.

Who acts: Puck, everyone · What happens: be, not play, visit, tremble, trick · To what, where: tricks, same place, one village, next victim

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, everyone), 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	Puck	puck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 careful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 careful	cop
3	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 play	advmod
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 play	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 careful	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tricks	nmod:poss
9	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 play	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 visited	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 visited	cc
16	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 careful	parataxis
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 village	nummod
18	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 visited	obj
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 visited	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 trembled	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 trembled	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 trembled	nsubj
25	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 visited	conj
26	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	32 victim	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 victim	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 victim	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 victim	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 victim	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 victim	amod
32	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trembled	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Puck				careful property	tree rules
2	not play	to-infinitive	Puck not said here	Puck's tricks	the same place		always property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
3	visit	past		one village		after another		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Co-Agent
4	tremble	past	everyone					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	should	Puck	the next victim				tree rules
6	trick		Puck					nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/42/