The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 56

Ah! the whistle has not lost its power after all,’ and stooping down, Toueno whistled more loudly than before, so that the old woman’s feet and hands showed signs of life, and she soon was able to life her head.

Who acts: Toueno, feet, woman · What happens: not lose, stoop down, whistle, show, be, sign · To what, where: whistle, signs, life · 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 (Toueno, feet, 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 lost	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 whistle	det
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 lost	advmod
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 power	nmod:poss
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 lost	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stooping	cc
15	stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 all	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 stooping	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whistled	punct
18	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 whistled	nsubj
19	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	parataxis
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 loudly	advmod
21	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	19 whistled	advmod
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 before	case
23	before	before	ADV	_	21 loudly	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 showed	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	34 showed	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 showed	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 feet	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 woman	case
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 showed	nsubj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hands	cc
33	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 feet	conj
34	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 whistled	conj
35	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 showed	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 life	case
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 signs	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 able	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 able	cc
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 able	nsubj
41	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 able	advmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 able	cop
43	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 showed	ccomp
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 life	case
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 able	obl
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 head	nmod:poss
47	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 able	nsubj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not lose	present · perfect · passive		the whistle	after all		tree rules
2	stoop down	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	whistle	past	Toueno			loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	show	past	the old woman's feet and hands	signs of life			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient
5	is	past	woman			to life; able, soon property	tree rules
6	sign			life			nom sign «communication 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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