The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 13

Here is was that Maurice’s music had brought from all parts a great gathering of the young men and the young women; for ‘twas not every day the strand of Trafraska was stirred up by the voice of a bagpipe.

Who acts: voice · What happens: be, bring, not stir up · To what, where: music, parts, strand

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 brought	mark
5	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 music	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Maurice	case
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brought	aux
9	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Here	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 parts	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 parts	det
12	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brought	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 gathering	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gathering	amod
15	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 parts	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 men	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 men	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 men	amod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gathering	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 women	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 women	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 women	amod
23	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 men	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 brought	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 twas	case
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 twas	punct
27	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brought	obl
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 stirred	advmod
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stirred	obl:unmarked
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 strand	det
32	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stirred	nsubj:pass
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Trafraska	case
34	Trafraska	Trafraska	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 strand	nmod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 stirred	aux:pass
36	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 brought	advcl
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 stirred	compound:prt
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 voice	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 voice	det
40	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stirred	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 bagpipe	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 bagpipe	det
43	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 voice	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					here property	tree rules
2	bring	past · perfect · passive		Maurice's music	all parts		for twas	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from part=Initial_Location
3	not stir up	past · passive	the voice of a bagpipe	the strand of Trafraska		day		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=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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