Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 12

There was music and dancing, and everybody was merry and glad.

Who acts: music, everybody · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, everybody), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dancing	cc
5	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 music	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 merry	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 merry	cc
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 merry	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 merry	cop
10	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 glad	cc
12	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 merry	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	music and dancing	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	everybody		merry property	tree rules
3	be		everybody not said here			tree rules

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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