The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 36

But perhaps you may have heard of Father Florence Conry, as pleasant a man as one would wish to drink with of a hot summer’s day; and he had rhymed out all about the dancing fishes so neatly that it would be a thousand pities not to give you his verses; so here they are in English:

Who acts: you, one, Florence, dancing, thousand pities, men · What happens: hear, wish, drink, rhyme out, fish, be · To what, where: thousand pities, verses, you, English

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 (you, one, Florence, dancing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 heard	cc
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	aux
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Florence	case
8	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Florence	compound
9	Florence	Florence	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
10	Conry	Conry	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Florence	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pleasant	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 pleasant	case
13	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heard	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pleasant	nsubj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 wish	mark
17	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wish	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wish	aux
19	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pleasant	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 drink	mark
21	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wish	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	28 day	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	28 day	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 summer	det
25	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 summer	amod
26	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 day	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 summer	case
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drink	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 rhymed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rhymed	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 rhymed	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 rhymed	aux
33	rhymed	rhyme	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 pleasant	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 rhymed	compound:prt
35	all	all	ADV	_	39 fishes	advmod
36	about	about	ADP	_	38 dancing	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dancing	det
38	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fishes	obl
39	fishes	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 rhymed	advcl
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 neatly	advmod
41	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	39 fishes	advmod
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 give	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 pities	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 pities	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 pities	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 thousand	det
47	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 pities	nummod
48	pities	pity	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 give	nsubj
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 give	advmod
50	to	to	PART	_	51 give	mark
51	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 neatly	advcl
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 give	iobj
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 verses	nmod:poss
54	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 give	obj
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 here	punct
56	so	so	ADV	_	57 here	advmod
57	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 heard	advmod
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 English	nsubj
59	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 English	cop
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 English	case
61	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 here	parataxis
62	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	may · perfect	you			here		of Father Florence; perhaps property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of florence=Stimulus
2	wish	would	one						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive	one not said here				day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rhyme out	past · perfect	Florence						vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	fish	present	Florence not said here					about the dancing; all, neatly property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about dancing=Location
6	is a	would	dancing	thousand pities					tree rules
7	not give	to-infinitive	thousand pities	pity's verses	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient verse=Theme
8	is	present	men = man			English			tree rules
9	verse		pity						nom verse «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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