The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 4
He could play jig and reel without end, and Ollistrum’s March, and the Eagle’s Whistle, and the Hen’s Concert, and odd tunes of every sort and kind.
Who acts: Maurice · What happens: play · To what, where: jig
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 play | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | aux |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | jig | jig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 reel | cc |
| 6 | reel | reel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jig | conj |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 March | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 March | cc |
| 11 | Ollistrum | Ollistrum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 March | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Ollistrum | case |
| 13 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 play | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Whistle | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Whistle | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Eagle | det |
| 17 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Whistle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Eagle | case |
| 19 | Whistle | Whistle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 play | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Concert | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Concert | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Hen | det |
| 23 | Hen | Hen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Concert | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Hen | case |
| 25 | Concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Whistle | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tunes | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tunes | cc |
| 28 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tunes | amod |
| 29 | tunes | tune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Whistle | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 sort | case |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 sort | det |
| 32 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tunes | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 kind | cc |
| 34 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sort | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | could | Maurice | jig and reel | without end | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jig=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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