The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 5

But he knew one far more surprising than the rest, which had in it the power to set everything dead or alive dancing.

Who acts: Maurice, rest · What happens: know, have, set · To what, where: one, power, rest, everything

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, rest), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 knew	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 knew	obj
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 surprising	advmod
7	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	ccomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 rest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 surprising	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rest	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 power	det
17	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 set	mark
19	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 power	acl
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 set	obj
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dancing	amod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 alive	cc
23	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dead	conj
24	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	Maurice	one		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	have	past	the rest	the power	rest	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	set	to-infinitive	the rest not said here	everything		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme dancing=Destination

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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