--- title: One stone hit the nose of Wellamos’s chief lady-in-waiting, another… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One stone hit the nose of Wellamos’s chief lady-in-waiting, another scratched the sea queen herself on the cheek, a third plumped close to Ahti’s head and tore off half of the sea-king’s beard; then there was a commotion in the sea, the waves bubbled and bubbled like boiling water in a pot. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One stone, another, commotion, Wellamos), 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:pg3454:24:61 # text = One stone hit the nose of Wellamos’s chief lady-in-waiting, another scratched the sea queen herself on the cheek, a third plumped close to Ahti’s head and tore off half of the sea-king’s beard; then there was a commotion in the sea, the waves bubbled and bubbled like boiling water in a pot. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 7 Wellamos Wellamos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 waiting waiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 another another PRON DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 17 scratched scratch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 plumped plump VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 Ahti Ahti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’s 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’s 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 46 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 advmod _ _ 47 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 48 expl _ _ 48 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 commotion commotion NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 appos _ _ 57 bubbled bubble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 56 acl _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 bubbled bubble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 57 conj _ _ 60 like like ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 boiling boil VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 62 amod _ _ 62 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obj _ _ 63 in in ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | past | One stone | the nose of Wellamos's waiting | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nose=Co-Theme | | 2 | **scratch** | past | another | the sea queen | | the cheek | | lady *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Theme on cheek=Destination | | 3 | **plump** | participle | | a third *not said here* | | | | to Ahti's head; close *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **tore off** | past | One stone *not said here* | half of the sea king's beard | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | past | a commotion in the sea | | | there | then | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **bubble** | participle | | the waves *not said here* | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 7 | **bubble** | participle | | boiling water | | a pot | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Source | | 8 | **boil** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **wait** | | Wellamos | | | | | | nom waiting «act intransitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/24/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/24/62/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/24/)