The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 41

Quickly regaining his feet Moti began to swing his plant round his head and to shout:

Who acts: Moti · What happens: regain, begin, swing, shout · To what, where: feet, plant, head

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti), 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	Quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 regaining	advmod
2	regaining	regain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 began	advcl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 regaining	obj
5	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 swing	mark
8	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 plant	nmod:poss
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swing	obj
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swing	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shout	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 shout	mark
16	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 swing	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	regain	gerund	Moti not said here	Moti's feet		quickly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	begin	past	Moti				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	swing	to-infinitive	Moti not said here	Moti's plant	Moti's head		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent plant=Theme round head=Trajectory
4	shout speech: express	to-infinitive	Moti not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

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