The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 93

Well, they weren’t crossing the lake while a cat ‘ud be lickin’ her ear, and the poor men couldn’t stir hand or foot to follow them.

Who acts: ladies, cat, poor men · What happens: not cross, be, not stir, follow · To what, where: lake, ud lickin, hand, ladies

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 (ladies, cat, poor men), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 crossing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 crossing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crossing	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 crossing	advmod
6	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crossing	obj
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 lickin	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lickin	nsubj
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 ud	punct
13	ud	ud	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lickin	compound
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 lickin	cop
15	lickin	lickin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crossing	parataxis
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 lickin	punct
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ear	nmod:poss
18	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lickin	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stir	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stir	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stir	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 stir	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 stir	advmod
26	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 crossing	conj
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stir	obj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 foot	cc
29	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hand	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 follow	mark
31	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 stir	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 follow	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crossing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not cross	past · progressive	ladies = lady	the lake	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Patient
2	is a	infinitive	a cat	ud lickin	tree rules
3	not stir	could	the poor men	hand or foot	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer
4	follow	to-infinitive	the poor men not said here	ladies = lady	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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