The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 42

The scallop and oyster Their two shells did roister, Like castanets flitting; While limpets moved clearly, And rocks very nearly With laughter were splitting.

Who acts: scallop, castanets, limpets, rocks · What happens: oyster, roister, flit, move, split · To what, where: two shells

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 (scallop, castanets, limpets, rocks), 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 scallop	det
2	scallop	scallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roister	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 oyster	cc
4	oyster	oyster	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 scallop	conj
5	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shells	nmod:poss
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 shells	nummod
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 oyster	obj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 roister	aux
9	roister	roister	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flitting	punct
11	Like	like	SCONJ	_	13 flitting	mark
12	castanets	castanet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flitting	nsubj
13	flitting	flit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 roister	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 moved	punct
15	While	while	SCONJ	_	17 moved	mark
16	limpets	limpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 moved	nsubj
17	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 roister	parataxis
18	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	17 moved	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 splitting	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 splitting	cc
21	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 splitting	nsubj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 nearly	advmod
23	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	25 laughter	advmod
24	With	with	ADP	_	25 laughter	case
25	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rocks	nmod
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 splitting	aux
27	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 moved	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 roister	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	oyster	infinitive	the scallop not said here	’d's two shells		vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Location
2	roister	past · do-support	the scallop			tree rules
3	flit	gerund	castanets			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	move	participle	limpets		clearly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	split	past · progressive	rocks with laughter			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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