The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 48
He must stay where he was, there was no help for it, and luckily for him the king was too much interested in the tale to notice that the fan had ceased moving, and that flies were dancing right on the top of his thick curly hair.
Who acts: brother, help, king, flies · What happens: stay, be, notice, cease, move, dance · To what, where: tale, fan, top · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, help, king, flies), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 was | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 help | det |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 help | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 interested | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 interested | cc |
| 16 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 18 him | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 interested | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 interested | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 interested | cop |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 interested | amod |
| 24 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stay | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 tale | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tale | det |
| 27 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 interested | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 notice | mark |
| 29 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 tale | acl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 ceased | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fan | det |
| 32 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 ceased | aux |
| 34 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 notice | ccomp |
| 35 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 ceased | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dancing | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 dancing | cc |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 flies | det |
| 39 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 dancing | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 dancing | aux |
| 41 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 ceased | advcl |
| 42 | right | right | ADV | _ | 41 dancing | advmod |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 top | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 top | det |
| 45 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dancing | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 hair | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 hair | nmod:poss |
| 48 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 hair | amod |
| 49 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 hair | amod |
| 50 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 top | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | must | brother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | brother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no help for head | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the king | the tale | interested property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | notice | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | cease | past · perfect · passive | the fan | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | dance | past · progressive | that flies | the top of brother's thick curly hair | right property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location |
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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