The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 5

The staircases were of crystal, and every separate stair sang like a woodland bird as you put your foot on it.

Who acts: staircases, separate stair, you · What happens: be, sing, put · To what, where: foot, stair

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staircases, separate stair, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:3023): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 staircases	det
2	staircases	staircase	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crystal	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crystal	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 crystal	case
5	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sang	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sang	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 stair	det
9	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stair	amod
10	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sang	nsubj
11	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crystal	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 bird	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bird	det
14	woodland	woodland	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bird	compound
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sang	obl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 put	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sang	advcl
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 foot	nmod:poss
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crystal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the staircases			of crystal	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	every separate stair			like a woodland bird	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	past	you	your foot	stair		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on it=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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