The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 61

One stone hit the nose of Wellamos’s chief lady-in-waiting, another scratched the sea queen herself on the cheek, a third plumped close to Ahti’s head and tore off half of the sea-king’s beard; then there was a commotion in the sea, the waves bubbled and bubbled like boiling water in a pot.

Who acts: One stone, another, commotion, Wellamos · What happens: hit, scratch, plump, tore off, be, bubble · To what, where: nose, sea queen, cheek, third, half, waves

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 (One stone, another, commotion, Wellamos), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 stone	nummod
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nose	det
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	14 waiting	case
7	Wellamos	Wellamos	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 waiting	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Wellamos	case
9	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lady	amod
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waiting	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 waiting	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 waiting	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nose	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 scratched	punct
16	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	17 scratched	nsubj
17	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 queen	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 queen	compound
20	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 scratched	obj
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 scratched	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 cheek	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cheek	det
24	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 scratched	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 third	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 third	det
27	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cheek	appos
28	plumped	plump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 third	acl
29	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 plumped	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 head	case
31	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 head	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Ahti	case
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plumped	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tore	cc
35	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	conj
36	off	off	ADP	_	35 tore	compound:prt
37	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	35 tore	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	44 beard	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 king	det
40	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 king	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 sea	punct
42	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 beard	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 king	case
44	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 half	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 was	punct
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 was	advmod
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 was	expl
48	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	parataxis
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 commotion	det
50	commotion	commotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 was	nsubj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 sea	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 sea	det
53	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 commotion	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 waves	punct
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 waves	det
56	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 commotion	appos
57	bubbled	bubble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 waves	acl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 bubbled	cc
59	bubbled	bubble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 bubbled	conj
60	like	like	ADP	_	61 boiling	case
61	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	62 water	amod
62	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 bubbled	obj
63	in	in	ADP	_	65 pot	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 pot	det
65	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 bubbled	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	One stone	the nose of Wellamos's waiting				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nose=Co-Theme
2	scratch	past	another	the sea queen	the cheek		lady obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Theme on cheek=Destination
3	plump	participle		a third not said here			to Ahti's head; close property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	tore off	past	One stone not said here	half of the sea king's beard				tree rules
5	be	past	a commotion in the sea		there	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bubble	participle		the waves not said here				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
7	bubble	participle		boiling water	a pot			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Source
8	boil	gerund						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	wait		Wellamos					nom waiting «act intransitive»: poss=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.

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