The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 34

Crabs of monstrous size spun round and round on one claw with the nimbleness of a dancing master, and twirled and tossed their other claws about like limbs that did not belong to them.

Who acts: limbs · What happens: spin, twirl, toss, not belong · To what, where: monstrous size, one claw, Crabs, other claws

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 (limbs), 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	Crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 twirled	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 size	case
3	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 size	amod
4	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crabs	nmod
5	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 size	acl
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 spun	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 round	cc
8	round	round	ADV	_	6 round	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 claw	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 claw	nummod
11	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spun	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 nimbleness	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nimbleness	det
14	nimbleness	nimbleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 claw	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 master	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 master	det
17	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 master	compound
18	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nimbleness	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 twirled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 twirled	cc
21	twirled	twirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tossed	cc
23	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 twirled	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 claws	nmod:poss
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 claws	amod
26	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tossed	obj
27	about	about	ADV	_	29 limbs	advmod
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 limbs	case
29	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 claws	conj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 belong	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 belong	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 belong	advmod
33	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 limbs	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 belong	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 twirled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spin	participle		monstrous size not said here		one claw with the nimbleness of a dancing master	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on claw=Trajectory
2	twirl	participle · passive		Crabs of monstrous size				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
3	toss	past		Crabs's other claws and limbs				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient
4	not belong	past · do-support	limbs		Crabs = crab			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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