The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 59

When Maurice’s mother saw him with that unnatural thing in the form of a green-haired lady as his guide, and he and she dancing down together so lovingly to the water’s edge, through the thick of the fishes, she called out after him to stop and come back.

Who acts: mother, Maurice · What happens: see, dance down, call out, stop, come back, form · To what, where: Maurice, green haired lady

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 (mother, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
2	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Maurice	case
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 thing	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 thing	det
9	unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 form	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 form	det
13	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 lady	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lady	det
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lady	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 green	punct
18	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lady	amod
19	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 form	nmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 guide	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 guide	nmod:poss
22	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lady	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dancing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dancing	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dancing	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dancing	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dancing	nsubj
28	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 saw	conj
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 dancing	advmod
30	together	together	ADV	_	28 dancing	advmod
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 lovingly	advmod
32	lovingly	lovingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dancing	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	37 edge	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 edge	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 water	case
37	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lovingly	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 thick	punct
39	through	through	ADP	_	41 thick	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 thick	det
41	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saw	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 fishes	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 fishes	det
44	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 thick	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 called	punct
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 called	nsubj
47	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 thick	conj
48	out	out	ADP	_	47 called	compound:prt
49	after	after	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 called	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 stop	mark
52	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 called	advcl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 come	cc
54	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 stop	conj
55	back	back	ADV	_	54 come	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Maurice's mother	Maurice		with that unnatural thing in the form of a green haired lady as Maurice's guide	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	dance down	gerund	Maurice			down, lovingly, together property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call out speech: assert	past	mother		after Maurice		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stop	to-infinitive	mother not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	come back	infinitive	mother not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	form			a green haired lady as Maurice's guide			nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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