The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 55

In this way they kept on at it, framing high compliments; one answering the other, and their feet going with the music as fast as their tongues.

Who acts: lips, one, feet · What happens: keep on, frame, answer, go · To what, where: way, high compliments, other

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 (lips, one, feet), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 kept	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 framing	punct
10	framing	frame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 kept	advcl
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 compliments	amod
12	compliments	compliment	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 framing	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 answering	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 answering	nsubj
15	answering	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 answering	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 going	cc
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 going	nsubj
22	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 answering	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 music	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 music	det
25	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 going	obl
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 fast	advmod
27	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 going	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 tongues	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tongues	nmod:poss
30	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fast	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep on	past	lips = lip		this way	at way	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location
2	frame	gerund	lips = lip not said here	high compliments			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent compliment=Destination
3	answer speech: assert	gerund	one	the other			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality
4	go	gerund	lips's feet			with the music; fast property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with music=Beneficiary

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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