The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 102

‘Oh, only the words of an old rhyme that keeps running in my head,’ answered the old woman; and she raised her voice and went on:

Who acts: old rhyme, words, word · What happens: keep, run, answer, raise, go on, word · To what, where: head, old woman, voice, old rhyme

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old rhyme, words, word), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 words	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 words	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 words	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 answered	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 rhyme	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rhyme	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rhyme	amod
10	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 keeps	nsubj
12	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rhyme	acl:relcl
13	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 keeps	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 running	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 words	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 words	punct
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 answered	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 raised	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 raised	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 raised	nsubj
26	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 answered	parataxis
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 voice	nmod:poss
28	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 raised	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 raised	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 went	compound:prt
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	keep	present	a old rhyme				tree rules
2	run	gerund	a old rhyme not said here			my head	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Trajectory
3	answer speech: assert	past	the words of a old rhyme		the old woman		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
4	raise	past	word	word's voice			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
5	go on	past	word not said here				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	word			a old rhyme			nom word «communication 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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