The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 40
The whiting and haddock Left salt water paddock This dance to be put in; Where skate with flat faces Edged out some old plaices; But soles kept their footing.
Who acts: whiting, soles · What happens: leave, paddock, put in, edge out, keep · To what, where: dance, skate, footing
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 (whiting, soles), 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 | 2 whiting | det |
| 2 | whiting | whiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paddock | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 haddock | cc |
| 4 | haddock | haddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whiting | conj |
| 5 | Left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 water | amod |
| 6 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | compound |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paddock | compound |
| 8 | paddock | paddock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 dance | det |
| 10 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paddock | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 put | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 put | aux:pass |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 paddock | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 put | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Edged | punct |
| 16 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 Edged | advmod |
| 17 | skate | skate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Edged | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 faces | case |
| 19 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 faces | amod |
| 20 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 skate | nmod |
| 21 | Edged | edge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 paddock | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 Edged | compound:prt |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 plaices | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 plaices | amod |
| 25 | plaices | plaice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Edged | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 kept | punct |
| 27 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 kept | cc |
| 28 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 kept | nsubj |
| 29 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 paddock | conj |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 footing | nmod:poss |
| 31 | footing | footing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kept | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 paddock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | paddock | infinitive | the whiting and haddock | this dance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put in | to-infinitive · passive | the whiting and haddock not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | |||||
| 4 | edge out | participle | the whiting and haddock not said here | skate with flat faces | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plaice=Destination | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | soles | soles's footing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=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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