The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 56

All the fish kept dancing, too; Maurice heard the clatter and was afraid to stop playing lest it might be displeasing to the fish, and not knowing what so many of them may take it into their heads to do to him if they got vexed.

Who acts: fish, Maurice, clatter, many · What happens: keep, dance, hear, be, stop, play · To what, where: clatter, heads, Maurice, lips · 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 (fish, Maurice, clatter, many), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 fish	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 too	punct
7	too	too	ADV	_	5 dancing	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
9	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clatter	det
12	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 afraid	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 afraid	cop
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heard	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stop	mark
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 afraid	xcomp
18	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stop	xcomp
19	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	23 displeasing	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 displeasing	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 displeasing	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 displeasing	aux
23	displeasing	displease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 playing	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 fish	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fish	det
26	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 displeasing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knowing	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 knowing	cc
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 knowing	advmod
30	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heard	advcl
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 take	obj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 many	advmod
33	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 take	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 many	nmod
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 knowing	ccomp
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 take	obj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 heads	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 heads	nmod:poss
41	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 take	obl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 do	mark
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 take	advcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 do	obl
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 vexed	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 vexed	nsubj
48	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 vexed	aux:pass
49	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 do	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	all fish					tree rules
2	dance	gerund	all fish not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	Maurice	the clatter				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer clatter=Stimulus
4	is	past	Maurice not said here				afraid property	tree rules
5	stop	to-infinitive	Maurice not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	play	gerund	Maurice not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	displease	might · progressive	clatter				to the fish	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
8	not know	gerund	Maurice not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	take	may	many of lips	clatter		lips's heads		tree rules
10	do	to-infinitive	many of lips not said here		Maurice			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	vex a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		lips = lip				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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