The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 19

She stood in the centre of the ring for a moment, looking at one man after another, and then held out the apple to the Shifty Lad, who was twisting a shaving of wood round his finger, and had the mouthpiece of a bagpipe hanging from his neck.

Who acts: princess, Shifty Lad, bagpipe · What happens: stand, look, hold out, twist, have, hang · To what, where: centre, apple, shaving, finger, mouthpiece, neck

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Shifty Lad, bagpipe), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 centre	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 centre	det
5	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 ring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 centre	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 moment	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 man	nummod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 another	case
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 man	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 held	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 held	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 held	advmod
22	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 held	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 apple	det
25	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 held	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 Lad	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Lad	det
28	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Lad	amod
29	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 held	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 twisting	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 twisting	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 twisting	aux
33	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 Lad	acl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 shaving	det
35	shaving	shaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 twisting	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 wood	case
37	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shaving	nmod
38	round	round	ADP	_	40 finger	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 finger	nmod:poss
40	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 twisting	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 had	cc
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 mouthpiece	det
45	mouthpiece	mouthpiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 had	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 bagpipe	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 bagpipe	det
48	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 mouthpiece	nmod
49	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 bagpipe	acl
50	from	from	ADP	_	52 neck	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 neck	nmod:poss
52	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 hanging	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	princess		the centre of the ring for a moment			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location
2	look	gerund	princess not said here				at one man after another	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at man=Theme
3	hold out	past	princess not said here	the apple		then	to the Shifty Lad	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme
4	twist	past · progressive	the Shifty Lad	a shaving of wood	Man's finger			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent shaving=Theme round finger=Trajectory
5	have	past		the mouthpiece of a bagpipe				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthpiece=Patient
6	hang	gerund	a bagpipe not said here		Man's neck			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	shave			wood				nom shaving «act 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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