The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 37
The big seals in motion, Like waves of the ocean, Or gouty feet prancing, Came heading the gay fish, Crabs, lobsters, and cray-fish, Determined on dancing.
Who acts: gouty feet, Came · What happens: prance, head, lobster, determine, wave · To what, where: gay fish, cray fish, dancing, ocean
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 (gouty feet, Came), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seals | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seals | amod |
| 3 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 motion | case |
| 5 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seals | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 waves | punct |
| 7 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 8 waves | case |
| 8 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seals | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ocean | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ocean | det |
| 11 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waves | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feet | punct |
| 13 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 feet | cc |
| 14 | gouty | gouty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feet | amod |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seals | conj |
| 16 | prancing | prance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 feet | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prancing | punct |
| 18 | Came | Came | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lobsters | nsubj |
| 19 | heading | head | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 Came | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fish | det |
| 21 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fish | amod |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heading | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Crabs | punct |
| 24 | Crabs | Crabs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Came | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lobsters | punct |
| 26 | lobsters | lobster | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 prancing | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fish | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fish | cc |
| 29 | cray | cray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fish | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 cray | punct |
| 31 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lobsters | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Determined | punct |
| 33 | Determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 fish | acl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 dancing | case |
| 35 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Determined | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prance | gerund | gouty feet not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | head | gerund | Came and Crabs not said here | the gay fish | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lobster | present | Came and Crabs | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | determine | participle | cray fish not said here | dancing | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wave | the ocean | nom wave «event 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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