The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 71

I was shaking my legs from sheer delight, and if you had been there you would have shaken your legs too.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: shake, be · To what, where: legs, sheer delight, you

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 (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 shaking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shaking	aux
3	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 legs	nmod:poss
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shaking	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 delight	case
7	sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 delight	amod
8	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shaken	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shaken	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 there	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 there	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 there	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 there	cop
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 shaken	advcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 shaken	nsubj:pass
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 shaken	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 shaken	aux
19	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shaking	conj
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 legs	nmod:poss
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shaken	obj
22	too	too	ADV	_	19 shaken	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shaking	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 shaking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	past · progressive	I	my legs	sheer delight		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent leg=Theme from delight=Trajectory
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you			there property	tree rules
3	shake	would · perfect · passive		you			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme leg=Destination

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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