The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 125
Well, they walked on easy, and the poor hearts beating in both their breasts; and though he could see nothing, he heard a faint jingle and trampling and rustling, and at last he got the push that she promised.
Who acts: women, poor hearts, court, chance · What happens: walk, beat, see, hear, get, promise · To what, where: easy, breasts, nothing, faint jingle, push, last
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, poor hearts, court, chance), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 easy | case |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 walked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beating | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beating | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hearts | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hearts | amod |
| 11 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beating | nsubj |
| 12 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 walked | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 breasts | case |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 breasts | det:predet |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 breasts | nmod:poss |
| 16 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beating | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 heard | cc |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 heard | advcl |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 jingle | det |
| 28 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 jingle | amod |
| 29 | jingle | jingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heard | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 trampling | cc |
| 31 | trampling | trampling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 jingle | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 rustling | cc |
| 33 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 jingle | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 got | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 got | cc |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 last | case |
| 37 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 got | obl |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 got | nsubj |
| 39 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 push | det |
| 41 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 got | obj |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 promised | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 promised | nsubj |
| 44 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 got | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | women = woman | easy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on easy=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | beat | gerund | the poor hearts | women's breasts | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breast=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | could | court | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | court | a faint jingle and trampling and rustling | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer jingle=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | get | past | court | the push | last | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent push=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past | chance | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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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