The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 91

And they all took to holding water in their mouths that they might gurgle whenever anyone spoke to them.

Who acts: ladies, anyone · What happens: take, hold, gurgle, speak · To what, where: mouths, ladies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, anyone), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 took	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 they	det
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mouths	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouths	nmod:poss
10	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 gurgle	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gurgle	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 gurgle	aux
14	gurgle	gurgle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	advcl
15	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 spoke	advmod
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 spoke	nsubj
17	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gurgle	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spoke	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	ladies = lady		ladies's mouths	to holding water result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to water=Result
2	hold	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gurgle	might	ladies = lady				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past	anyone	ladies = lady		whenever property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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