--- title: Maurice had not the power to say a word more, for the strange lady w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Maurice had not the power to say a word more, for the strange lady with the green hair, seeing the wave just upon them, covered him up with herself in a thing like a cloak with a big hood to it, and the wave curling over twice as high as their heads, burst upon the strand, with a rush and a roar tha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/70/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/) / 70 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 70 Maurice had not the power to say a word more, for the strange lady with the green hair, seeing the wave just upon them, covered him up with herself in a thing like a cloak with a big hood to it, and the wave curling over twice as high as their heads, burst upon the strand, with a rush and a roar that might be heard as far as Cape Clear. **Who acts:** Maurice, wave · **What happens:** have, say, see, cover up, curl, burst · **To what, where:** power, word, wave, Maurice, strand, roar · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maurice, wave), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:18:70 # text = Maurice had not the power to say a word more, for the strange lady with the green hair, seeing the wave just upon them, covered him up with herself in a thing like a cloak with a big hood to it, and the wave curling over twice as high as their heads, burst upon the strand, with a rush and a roar that might be heard as far as Cape Clear. 1 Maurice Maurice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 upon upon ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 hood hood NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 49 curling curl VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 acl _ _ 50 over over ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 53 advmod _ _ 52 as as ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 ccomp _ _ 54 as as ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 59 upon upon ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 strand strand NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 63 with with ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 rush rush NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 66 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 67 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 conj _ _ 69 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 72 nsubj:pass _ _ 70 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 72 aux _ _ 71 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 72 aux:pass _ _ 72 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 68 acl:relcl _ _ 73 as as ADV RB _ 74 advmod _ _ 74 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 72 advmod _ _ 75 as as ADP IN _ 77 case _ _ 76 Cape Cape PROPN NNP Number=Sing 77 compound _ _ 77 Clear Clear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 78 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Maurice | the power | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Maurice *not said here* | a word | | | | for the strange lady with the green hair | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 3 | **see** | gerund | Maurice *not said here* | the wave | | | | upon waves *= wave* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wave=Stimulus | | 4 | **cover up** | past | | | Maurice | | | with lady; in a thing like a cloak with a big hood to hood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination in thing=Theme | | 5 | **curl** | gerund | the wave *not said here* | | | | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **burst** | past | the wave | | | the strand | | with a rush and a roar | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon strand=Location | | 7 | **hear** | might · passive | | a roar | | | | as Cape Clear; far *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/71/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/)