The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 20

‘Well, well, wonders will never cease,’ answered the good woman, who took care to keep at a safe distance.

Who acts: wonders, good woman · What happens: not cease, answer, take, keep · To what, where: good woman, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonders, good woman), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 cease	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 wonders	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	6 wonders	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cease	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cease	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 cease	advmod
9	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 answered	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cease	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cease	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 woman	acl:relcl
19	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 keep	mark
21	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 took	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 distance	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 distance	det
24	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 distance	amod
25	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keep	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not cease	future	wonders				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	answer speech: assert	past			the good woman		tree rules
3	take	past	the good woman	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive	the good woman not said here			at a safe distance	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location

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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