More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 56

Dancing, laughing, joining hands and tripping feet, the bright throng moved along up Gold Street and down Silver Street, and beyond Silver Street lay the cool green forest full of old oaks and wide-spreading beeches.

Who acts: Dancing · What happens: laugh, join, trip, move, lie, spread · To what, where: hands, feet, bright throng, Gold Street, cool green forest, beeches

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dancing), 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	Dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 laughing	punct
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Dancing	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 joining	punct
5	joining	join	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 laughing	conj
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 joining	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tripping	cc
8	tripping	trip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 joining	conj
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tripping	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throng	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 throng	det
12	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 throng	amod
13	throng	throng	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	conj
14	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 throng	acl
15	along	along	ADP	_	18 Street	case
16	up	up	ADP	_	18 Street	case
17	Gold	Gold	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Street	compound
18	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 moved	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Street	cc
20	down	down	ADP	_	22 Street	case
21	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Street	compound
22	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Street	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	27 Street	case
26	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Street	compound
27	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
28	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 forest	det
30	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 forest	amod
31	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 forest	amod
32	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obj
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 forest	amod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 oaks	case
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 oaks	amod
36	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 full	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 spreading	cc
38	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 spreading	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 wide	punct
40	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 oaks	conj
41	beeches	beech	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 spreading	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund	Dancing and the bright throng not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	join	gerund	Dancing and the bright throng not said here	hands			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	trip	gerund	Dancing and the bright throng not said here	feet			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Agent
4	move	participle		the bright throng not said here	Gold Street and Silver Street		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along street=Trajectory
5	lie	past	Dancing and the bright throng	the cool green forest		beyond Silver Street	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forest=Theme
6	spread	gerund	Dancing and the bright throng not said here	beeches			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beech=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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