The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 16
‘More power to your elbow, Maurice, and a fair wind in the bellows,’ cried Paddy Dorman, a hump-backed dancing master, who was there to keep order.
Who acts: Paddy, backed dancing master · What happens: cry, back, be, keep · To what, where: order
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 (Paddy, backed dancing master), 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 | _ | 3 power | punct |
| 2 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 power | amod |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 elbow | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 power | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Maurice | punct |
| 8 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 power | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wind | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wind | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wind | amod |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 power | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bellows | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bellows | det |
| 16 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wind | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 power | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 power | punct |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Paddy | Paddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 21 | Dorman | Dorman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Paddy | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 master | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 master | det |
| 24 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 backed | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 hump | punct |
| 26 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 master | amod |
| 27 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 master | compound |
| 28 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Paddy | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 there | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 there | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 there | cop |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 master | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 keep | mark |
| 34 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 there | advcl |
| 35 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keep | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Paddy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | back | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | a backed dancing master | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | a backed dancing master not said here | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=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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