The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 78

And in a moment the Black Rogue’s legs began to shake and to kick, and the Shifty Lad stood below, watching him and laughing heartily.

Who acts: Shifty Lad · What happens: begin, shake, kick, stand, watch, laugh · To what, where: Lad

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 (Shifty 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rogue	det
6	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rogue	compound
7	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 legs	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Rogue	case
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 moment	nmod
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 shake	mark
12	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kick	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 kick	mark
15	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 shake	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stood	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stood	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Lad	det
19	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Lad	amod
20	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
22	below	below	ADV	_	21 stood	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 watching	punct
24	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 stood	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 watching	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 laughing	cc
27	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 watching	conj
28	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	27 laughing	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past			moment		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shake	to-infinitive					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	kick	to-infinitive					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	stand	past	the Shifty Lad			below property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	watch	gerund	the Shifty Lad not said here	Lad			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	laugh	gerund	the Shifty Lad not said here			heartily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/78/