More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 92
He asked her to be his partner for the first dance, and he would dance with none other the live-long night.
Who acts: lord · What happens: ask, be, dance · To what, where: Catskin, partner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 partner | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 partner | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 partner | nmod:poss |
| 7 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 dance | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dance | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 dance | amod |
| 11 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 partner | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dance | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dance | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dance | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 dance | aux |
| 16 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 none | case |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 16 dance | obl |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 none | amod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 21 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 long | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 live | punct |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 night | amod |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dance | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | lord | Catskin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | lord's partner | for the first dance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dance | would | lord | night | with none | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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