The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 7

At the very first note of that tune the shoes began shaking upon the feet of all how heard it--old or young, it mattered not--just as if the shoes had the ague; then the feet began going, going, going from under them, and at last up and away with them, dancing like mad, whisking here, there, and everywhere, like a straw in a storm--there was no halting while the music lasted.

Who acts: shoes, it, feet, halting, music · What happens: begin, shake, hear, not matter, have, go · To what, where: first note, feet, Tune, ague

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 (shoes, it, feet, halting), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 note	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 note	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 first	advmod
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 note	amod
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 tune	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 tune	det
8	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 note	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shoes	det
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 began	xcomp
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feet	det
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shaking	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 feet	nmod
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 heard	advmod
19	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shaking	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	obj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 old	punct
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 heard	parataxis
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 young	cc
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 old	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mattered	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 mattered	nsubj
27	mattered	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	conj
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 mattered	advmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
30	just	just	ADV	_	35 had	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 had	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 had	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shoes	det
34	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mattered	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ague	det
37	ague	ague	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 began	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 began	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 feet	det
41	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 began	nsubj
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	parataxis
43	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 began	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 going	punct
45	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 going	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 going	punct
47	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 going	conj
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 them	case
49	under	under	ADP	_	50 them	case
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 going	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 last	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 last	cc
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 last	case
54	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 began	conj
55	up	up	ADP	_	54 last	compound:prt
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 away	cc
57	away	away	ADV	_	55 up	conj
58	with	with	ADP	_	59 them	case
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 last	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 dancing	punct
61	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 began	advcl
62	like	like	ADP	_	63 mad	case
63	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 dancing	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 whisking	punct
65	whisking	whisk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	61 dancing	conj
66	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	65 whisking	advmod
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 there	punct
68	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	65 whisking	advmod
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 everywhere	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 everywhere	cc
71	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	42 began	advmod
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 straw	punct
73	like	like	ADP	_	75 straw	case
74	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	75 straw	det
75	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 began	obl
76	in	in	ADP	_	78 storm	case
77	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	78 storm	det
78	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 straw	nmod
79	--	--	PUNCT	_	81 was	punct
80	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	81 was	expl
81	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	87 lasted	parataxis
82	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	83 halting	det
83	halting	halting	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 was	nsubj
84	while	while	SCONJ	_	87 lasted	mark
85	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	86 music	det
86	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 lasted	nsubj
87	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 began	advcl
88	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the shoes		the first note of that tune			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shake	gerund	the shoes not said here		the feet of all			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Location
3	hear	past	the shoes not said here	Tune				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	not matter	past	it					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the shoes	the ague				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ague=Patient
6	begin	past	the feet			then	like a straw in a storm; everywhere property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	go	gerund	the feet not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go	gerund	the feet not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	go	gerund	the feet not said here				from feet = foot	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location
10	dance	gerund	the feet not said here				like mad	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	whisk	gerund	the feet not said here		here; there			vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
12	be	past	no halting		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	last	past	the music					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
14	note			that tune				nom note «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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