The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 56

The fiddler was with her, and fiddled so finely that Ahti and Wellamos and all the sea’s daughters rose to the surface of the water to listen to the music.

Who acts: fiddler, daughters · What happens: be, fiddle, rise, listen · To what, where: surface

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fiddler, daughters), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fiddler	det
2	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 her	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 her	cop
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fiddled	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fiddled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fiddled	cc
8	fiddled	fiddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 finely	advmod
10	finely	finely	ADV	_	21 rose	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 rose	mark
12	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 daughters	nmod:poss
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Wellamos	cc
14	Wellamos	Wellamos	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ahti	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sea	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sea	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ahti	conj
19	’s	's	PART	_	12 Ahti	case
20	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rose	nsubj
21	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fiddled	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 surface	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 surface	det
24	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rose	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 surface	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 listen	mark
29	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 rose	advcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 music	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 music	det
32	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 listen	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fiddled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fiddler		with Maie	tree rules
2	fiddle	past				vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	rise	past	Ahti and Wellamos and all sea's daughters	the surface of the water	finely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location
4	listen	to-infinitive	Ahti and Wellamos and all sea's daughters not said here		to the music	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=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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