The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 32
There was his mother, too, moving her old bones as light as the youngest girl of them all; but her dancing, no, nor the dancing of all the rest, is not worthy the speaking about to the work that was going on down upon the strand.
Who acts: mother, dancing, work · What happens: be, move, not be, speak, go on, dance · To what, where: old bones, strand, rest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother, dancing, work), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 too | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 moving | punct |
| 8 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 was | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bones | nmod:poss |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bones | amod |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 moving | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 light | advmod |
| 13 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 moving | parataxis |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 light | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 girl | nmod |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 worthy | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 worthy | cc |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 dancing | nmod:poss |
| 24 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 worthy | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dancing | punct |
| 26 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 dancing | discourse |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dancing | punct |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 dancing | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dancing | det |
| 30 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dancing | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 rest | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 rest | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 rest | det |
| 34 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dancing | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dancing | punct |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 worthy | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 worthy | advmod |
| 38 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | parataxis |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 speaking | det |
| 40 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 worthy | advcl |
| 41 | about | about | ADP | _ | 44 work | case |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 work | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 work | det |
| 44 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 speaking | obl |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 going | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 going | aux |
| 47 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 work | acl:relcl |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 going | compound:prt |
| 49 | down | down | ADV | _ | 47 going | advmod |
| 50 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 52 strand | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 strand | det |
| 52 | strand | strand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 going | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Maurice's mother | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | Maurice's mother not said here | mother's old bones | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | mother's dancing | worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | mother's dancing not said here | about the work | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about work=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go on | past · progressive | the work | the strand | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon strand=Location | |||
| 6 | dance | mother | nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | dance | all rest | nom dancing «act transitive»: of=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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