The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 31

Maurice himself could not keep quiet; staggering now on one leg, now on the other, and rolling about like a ship in a cross sea, trying to humour the tune.

Who acts: Maurice · What happens: not keep, stagger, roll about, try, humour · To what, where: one leg, tune

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 (Maurice), 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	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 Maurice	nmod:unmarked
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 keep	advmod
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 staggering	punct
8	staggering	stagger	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 keep	advcl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 staggering	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 leg	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 leg	nummod
12	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 staggering	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 other	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 other	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 other	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rolling	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rolling	cc
20	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 keep	advcl
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 rolling	advmod
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 ship	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ship	det
24	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rolling	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 sea	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 sea	det
27	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sea	amod
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ship	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 trying	punct
30	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 rolling	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 humour	mark
32	humour	humour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 trying	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tune	det
34	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 humour	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	could	Maurice Maurice				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stagger	gerund	Maurice Maurice not said here		one leg	now		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
3	roll about	gerund	Maurice Maurice not said here				like a ship in a cross sea; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	gerund	Maurice Maurice not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	humour not said to happen	to-infinitive	Maurice Maurice not said here	the tune				tree rules

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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