The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 64

He stood on tiptoe gazing and gazing, till the candle in the attic was put out; the student had blown it out and had gone to bed, but the Goblin remained standing outside listening to the music, which very softly and sweetly was now singing the student a lullaby.

Who acts: music, Goblin, standing · What happens: stand, gaze, put out, blow out, go, remain · To what, where: tiptoe, candle, attic, student, bed, lullaby · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, Goblin, standing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	on	on	ADP	_	4 tiptoe	case
4	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
5	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gazing	cc
7	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gazing	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 candle	punct
9	till	till	ADP	_	11 candle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 candle	det
11	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gazing	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 attic	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 attic	det
14	attic	attic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 put	aux:pass
16	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 candle	acl:relcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 put	compound:prt
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 blown	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 student	det
20	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blown	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 blown	aux
22	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 blown	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	22 blown	compound:prt
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gone	cc
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	aux
27	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 blown	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 bed	case
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 remained	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 remained	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Goblin	det
33	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 remained	nsubj
34	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
35	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 singing	csubj
36	outside	outside	ADP	_	37 listening	mark
37	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 standing	advcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 music	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 music	det
40	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 listening	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 softly	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 softly	nsubj
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 softly	advmod
44	softly	softly	ADV	_	40 music	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 sweetly	cc
46	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	44 softly	conj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 singing	aux
48	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 singing	advmod
49	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 remained	advcl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 student	det
51	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 singing	obj
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 lullaby	det
53	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 singing	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	music			tiptoe			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location
2	gaze	gerund	music not said here				till the candle		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	gaze	gerund	music not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	put out	past · passive		the candle not said here		the attic			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in attic=Destination
5	blow out	past · perfect · passive		the student					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Product
6	go	past · perfect				bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
7	remain	past	the Goblin						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	stand	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	listen	gerund						to the music	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme
10	sing speech: express	past · progressive	standing	a lullaby	the student		now		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent student=Beneficiary lullaby=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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