The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 66
There he kept playing and dancing on as if nothing was the matter, and a great thundering wave coming in towards him ready to swallow him up alive; but as he could not see it, he did not fear it.
Who acts: Maurice, nothing, great thundering wave · What happens: keep, play, dance on, be, come in, swallow up · To what, where: matter, Maurice
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, nothing, great thundering wave), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 kept | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dancing | cc |
| 6 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 playing | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 dancing | compound:prt |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 matter | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 matter | mark |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 matter | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 matter | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dancing | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ready | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ready | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wave | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wave | amod |
| 18 | thundering | thundering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wave | compound |
| 19 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ready | nsubj |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 wave | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 coming | advmod |
| 22 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 coming | obl |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kept | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 swallow | mark |
| 26 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ready | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 swallow | obj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 swallow | compound:prt |
| 29 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 swallow | xcomp |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 fear | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 fear | cc |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 see | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 see | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 see | advmod |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 fear | advcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 see | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 fear | nsubj |
| 40 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 fear | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 fear | advmod |
| 42 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kept | parataxis |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 fear | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Maurice | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | Maurice not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dance on | gerund | Maurice not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | nothing | the matter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come in | gerund | a great thundering wave not said here | towards Maurice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | swallow up | to-infinitive | Maurice not said here | Maurice | alive property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 7 | not see | could | Maurice | matter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | not fear | past · do-support | Maurice | matter | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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