More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 11

And he began to sing, dancing round Tom, like a bairn with his yellow hair, but looking older than ever with his grinning wrinkled bit of a face:

Who acts: Yallery, grinning · What happens: begin, sing, dance, look, wrinkle, grin · To what, where: bit

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yallery, grinning), 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	_	3 began	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sing	mark
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dancing	punct
7	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sing	conj
8	round	round	ADP	_	9 Tom	case
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dancing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bairn	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 bairn	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bairn	det
13	bairn	bairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dancing	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 hair	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hair	nmod:poss
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hair	amod
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bairn	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looking	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 looking	cc
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
21	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 looking	xcomp
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 ever	case
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 older	obl
24	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 wrinkled	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 grinning	nmod:poss
26	grinning	grinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wrinkled	nsubj
27	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 looking	advcl
28	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wrinkled	obl:unmarked
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 face	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 face	det
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bit	nmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Yallery			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Yallery not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dance	gerund	Yallery not said here		round Tom; like a bairn with Yallery's yellow hair	vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	look	gerund	Yallery not said here		old property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	wrinkle	past	Yallery's grinning	bit of a face		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	grin		Yallery			nom grinning «communication 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: «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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