The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 105
But she was not as skilful as the Wise Man, and the Shifty Lad felt the touch of her fingers; so as soon as the dance was over he contrived to place a second black dot on the faces of the twenty men and two more on the Wizard, after which he slipped the bottle into her pocket.
Who acts: help, Shifty Lad, Lad · What happens: not be, feel, be, slip, touch · To what, where: touch, bottle, pocket, fingers
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, Shifty Lad, Lad), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 skilful | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 skilful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 skilful | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 skilful | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 skilful | advmod |
| 6 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Man | det |
| 9 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Man | amod |
| 10 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skilful | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 felt | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lad | det |
| 14 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Lad | amod |
| 15 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 skilful | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 touch | det |
| 18 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fingers | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 touch | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 soon | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 soon | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 soon | advmod |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 contrived | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 dance | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dance | det |
| 28 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 soon | obl |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 contrived | cop |
| 30 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 32 contrived | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 contrived | nsubj |
| 32 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 felt | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 place | mark |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 contrived | advcl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 dot | det |
| 36 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 dot | amod |
| 37 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 dot | amod |
| 38 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 contrived | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 faces | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 faces | det |
| 41 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 dot | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 men | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 men | det |
| 44 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 men | nummod |
| 45 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 faces | nmod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 more | cc |
| 47 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 more | nummod |
| 48 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 45 men | conj |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 Wizard | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Wizard | det |
| 51 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 more | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 slipped | punct |
| 53 | after | after | ADP | _ | 54 which | case |
| 54 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 slipped | obl |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 slipped | nsubj |
| 56 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 contrived | parataxis |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 bottle | det |
| 58 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 slipped | obj |
| 59 | into | into | ADP | _ | 61 pocket | case |
| 60 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 61 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 slipped | obl | ||
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 skilful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | help | as the Wise Man; skilful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the Shifty Lad | the touch of help's fingers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Lad | contrive, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slip | past | Lad | the bottle | help's pocket | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient | |||
| 5 | touch | help's fingers | nom touch «event 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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