The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 72
Then, on tiptoe, the idiot crept back to the colt which he led over soft moss past the black man into the vale of pleasure, a delicious garden full of fruits that dangled before your mouth, fountains running with wine, and flowers chanting in soft little voices.
Who acts: idiot, colt, fruits, fountains, flowers · What happens: creep back, lead, dangle, run, chant · To what, where: flowers, tiptoe, soft moss, mouth, soft little voices
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 (idiot, colt, fruits, fountains), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 crept | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 tiptoe | case |
| 4 | tiptoe | tiptoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crept | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tiptoe | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 idiot | det |
| 7 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crept | nsubj |
| 8 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 crept | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 colt | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 colt | det |
| 12 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crept | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 led | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | nsubj |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 colt | acl:relcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 moss | case |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 moss | amod |
| 18 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 19 | past | past | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 vale | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 vale | det |
| 25 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pleasure | case |
| 27 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 vale | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 garden | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 garden | det |
| 30 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 garden | amod |
| 31 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 vale | conj |
| 32 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 garden | amod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fruits | case |
| 34 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 full | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 dangled | nsubj |
| 36 | dangled | dangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fruits | acl:relcl |
| 37 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 mouth | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 39 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dangled | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fountains | punct |
| 41 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 fruits | conj |
| 42 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 fountains | acl |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 wine | case |
| 44 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 running | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 flowers | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 flowers | cc |
| 47 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crept | obl |
| 48 | chanting | chant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 flowers | acl |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 voices | case |
| 50 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 voices | amod |
| 51 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 voices | amod |
| 52 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 chanting | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep back | past | the idiot | flowers | tiptoe | then | to the colt | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to colt=Destination | |
| 2 | lead | past | the colt | soft moss | past the black man; into the vale of pleasure and a delicious garden | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over moss=Destination | |||
| 3 | dangle | past | fruits and fountains | your mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before mouth=Location | ||||
| 4 | run | gerund | fountains not said here | with wine | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with wine=Material | ||||
| 5 | chant | gerund | flowers not said here | soft little voices | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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