The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 44
Peronnik’s heart beat high at the thought that he had reached safely the second trial, and he gazed quite calmly at the lion with the mane of vipers twisting and twirling, who walked up and down in front of the grove.
Who acts: heart, vipers, mane · What happens: beat, reach, gaze, twist, twirl, walk · To what, where: thought, second trial, front
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, vipers, mane), 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 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Peronnik | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 beat | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 thought | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thought | det |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 reached | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reached | aux |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | acl:relcl |
| 13 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 12 reached | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trial | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 trial | amod |
| 16 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gazed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gazed | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gazed | nsubj |
| 20 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | conj |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 calmly | advmod |
| 22 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 20 gazed | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 lion | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lion | det |
| 25 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gazed | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 mane | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mane | det |
| 28 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gazed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 vipers | case |
| 30 | vipers | viper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mane | nmod |
| 31 | twisting | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 vipers | acl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 twirling | cc |
| 33 | twirling | twirl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 twisting | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 walked | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 walked | nsubj |
| 36 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 mane | acl:relcl |
| 37 | up | up | ADV | _ | 36 walked | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 down | cc |
| 39 | down | down | ADV | _ | 37 up | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 front | case |
| 41 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 walked | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 grove | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 grove | det |
| 44 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 front | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | Peronnik's heart | the thought | high property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Location | |||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect | heart | the second trial | safely property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | |||
| 3 | gaze | past | heart | at the lion; with the mane of vipers; calmly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | twist | gerund | vipers not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | twirl | gerund | vipers not said here | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | walk | past | the mane of vipers | front of the grove | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory |
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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