The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 47
Up she danced at last to Maurice, who was flinging his feet from under him as fast as hops--for nothing in this world could keep still while that tune of his was going on--and says she to him, chanting it out with a voice as sweet as honey:
Who acts: heaven, nothing, Maurice · What happens: dance, fling, keep, go on, say, chant out · To what, where: Maurice, last, feet, tune, heaven, world · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (heaven, nothing, 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 3 danced | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 danced | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Maurice | case |
| 7 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 danced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flinging | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 flinging | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flinging | aux |
| 11 | flinging | fling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 danced | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flinging | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flinging | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 fast | advmod |
| 18 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 flinging | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 hops | case |
| 20 | hops | hop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fast | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 nothing | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 nothing | case |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 keep | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 nothing | nmod |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 keep | aux |
| 28 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 danced | advcl |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 keep | advmod |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 32 tune | mark |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 tune | det |
| 32 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 keep | xcomp |
| 33 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 36 going | mark |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 going | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 going | aux |
| 36 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 tune | acl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 going | compound:prt |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 says | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 says | cc |
| 40 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 danced | parataxis |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 says | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 says | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 chanting | punct |
| 45 | chanting | chant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 says | advcl |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 chanting | obj |
| 47 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 chanting | compound:prt |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 voice | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 voice | det |
| 50 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 chanting | obl |
| 51 | as | as | ADV | _ | 52 sweet | advmod |
| 52 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 voice | amod |
| 53 | as | as | ADP | _ | 54 honey | case |
| 54 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 sweet | obl |
| 55 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | heaven | Maurice | last | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | fling | past · progressive | Maurice's feet | from Maurice; fast property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent foot=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | keep | could | nothing | that tune | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | go on | past · progressive | Maurice | that tune not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | heaven | Maurice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | chant out | gerund | world | with a voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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