The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 72

Then one by one the men tried the whistle, and blew so loudly that it seemed as if their lungs would burst, but the women lay stark and stiff and never moved an eyelid.

Who acts: one men, it, lungs, women · What happens: try, blow, seem, burst, lie, not move · To what, where: whistle, stark, eyelid

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 (one men, it, lungs, women), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 tried	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 one	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tried	nsubj
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 whistle	det
9	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blew	cc
12	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tried	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 loudly	advmod
14	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	12 blew	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 seemed	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 blew	advcl
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 burst	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 burst	mark
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lungs	nmod:poss
21	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 burst	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 burst	aux
23	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seemed	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 women	det
27	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tried	parataxis
29	stark	stark	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stiff	cc
31	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stark	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 moved	cc
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 moved	advmod
34	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lay	conj
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 eyelid	det
36	eyelid	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 moved	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	the one men	the whistle	then		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Eventuality
2	blow	past	the one men not said here			loudly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	burst a condition, not said to happen	would	husbands's lungs				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lie	past	the women	stark			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stark=Theme
6	not move	past	the women not said here	a eyelid			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eyelid=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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