The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 39

The youth told him all his story, and when he had finished, the old man said: “Spade and shovel do your duty,” and they danced about the cave till, in a short time, there was not a speck of dust left on the floor.

Who acts: youth, old man, Spade, bargain, speck · What happens: tell, finish, say, do, dance, be · To what, where: story, Tritill, duty, dust, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, old man, Spade, bargain), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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