The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 59

The drumsticks stiffened in Walter’s hands, and he thought now they are coming...!

Who acts: drumsticks, Walter · What happens: stiffen, think, come · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drumsticks, Walter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drumsticks	det
2	drumsticks	drumstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stiffened	nsubj
3	stiffened	stiffen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hands	case
5	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hands	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Walter	case
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stiffened	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stiffened	parataxis
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 coming	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 coming	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 coming	aux
15	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 thought	ccomp
16	...	...	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 stiffened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	stiffen	past	the drumsticks	Walter's hands		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	Walter			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	present · progressive	drumsticks = drumstick		now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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