The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 60

But whatever Marzinne might say Rozennik smiled and nodded to him as before, and would often turn her head as she passed, and sing snatches of old songs over her shoulder.

Who acts: Marzinne, Rozennik · What happens: say, smile, nod, turn, pass, sing · To what, where: whatever, man, head, snatches, shoulder, old songs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marzinne, Rozennik), 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	_	5 say	cc
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 say	obj
3	Marzinne	Marzinne	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Rozennik	Rozennik	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 smiled	nsubj
7	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nodded	cc
9	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smiled	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nodded	obl
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 before	advmod
13	before	before	ADV	_	9 nodded	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turn	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turn	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 turn	aux
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 turn	advmod
18	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turn	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 passed	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 passed	nsubj
23	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turn	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sing	cc
26	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	conj
27	snatches	snatch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sing	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 songs	case
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 songs	amod
30	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 snatches	nmod
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 shoulder	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 shoulder	nmod:poss
33	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	might	Marzinne	whatever				tree rules
2	smile	past	Rozennik					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	nod	past	Rozennik not said here		man		before property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	turn	would	Marzinne not said here	Rozennik's head			often property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	pass	past	Rozennik					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sing speech: express	present	Marzinne not said here	snatches of old songs		Rozennik's shoulder		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snatch=Theme
7	snatch			old songs				nom snatch «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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