The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 83

But no whistle came, and soon the legs ceased to shake and to kick, for the Black Gallows Bird was dead, as the Shifty Lad intended he should be.

Who acts: whistle, Gallows Bird, Shifty Lad, Lad · What happens: come, cease, shake, kick, be, intend · To what, where: legs

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 (whistle, Gallows Bird, 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	_	4 came	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 whistle	det
3	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ceased	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ceased	cc
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 ceased	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 legs	det
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ceased	nsubj:pass
10	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 shake	mark
12	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ceased	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 Bird	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	21 Bird	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Bird	det
19	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Gallows	amod
20	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 Bird	compound
21	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 dead	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dead	cop
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kick	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 intended	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 intended	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Lad	det
27	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Lad	amod
28	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 intended	nsubj
29	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 kick	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 be	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 be	aux
32	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 intended	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	no whistle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cease	participle · passive		the legs	soon property	tree rules
3	shake	to-infinitive				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	kick	to-infinitive				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	the Gallows Bird		dead property	tree rules
6	intend	past	the Shifty Lad			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	be not said to happen	should	Lad			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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