The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 118

Stooping down as he spoke he traced three circles on the ground and murmured some words very low, which Peronnik could not hear.

Who acts: man, Peronnik · What happens: stoop down, speak, trace, murmur, not hear · To what, where: three circles, ground, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Peronnik), 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	Stooping	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 traced	csubj
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Stooping	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 spoke	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spoke	nsubj
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stooping	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 traced	nsubj
7	traced	trace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 circles	nummod
9	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 traced	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 traced	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 murmured	cc
14	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 traced	conj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 words	det
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 murmured	obj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 low	advmod
18	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 words	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hear	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hear	obj
21	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 hear	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 hear	advmod
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 low	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 traced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stoop down	gerund				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	past	man				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	trace	past	man	three circles	the ground		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent circle=Theme on ground=Destination
4	murmur speech: other	past	man not said here	some words			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
5	not hear	could	Peronnik				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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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