The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 68
Certain it was she could not help it, for Maurice never stopped playing that wonderful tune of his.
Who acts: Certain, Maurice · What happens: not be, not stop, play · To what, where: wonderful tune
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 (Certain, 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 | Certain | certain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | cop |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 help | advmod |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stopped | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 stopped | mark |
| 11 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 stopped | advmod |
| 13 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | parataxis |
| 14 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stopped | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 tune | mark |
| 16 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tune | amod |
| 17 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 playing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 his | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tune | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | could · past | Certain | help property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not stop | past | Maurice | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | play | gerund | Maurice not said here | wonderful tune | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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