The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 19

“Dance,” said Jimmu, and the tanuki did his steps, and moved first on one side and then on the other, till the people could not stand still any longer, and began to dance too.

Who acts: Dance, tanuki, people, Jimmu · What happens: say, do, move, not stand, begin, dance · To what, where: steps, one side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dance, tanuki, people, Jimmu), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dance	punct
2	Dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dance	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dance	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 did	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tanuki	det
10	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 steps	nmod:poss
13	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 did	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 moved	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 moved	cc
16	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 moved	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 side	nummod
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 moved	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 other	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 other	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 other	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 moved	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stand	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 stand	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 stand	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 stand	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 stand	advmod
32	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 moved	conj
33	still	still	ADV	_	32 stand	advmod
34	any	any	ADV	_	35 longer	advmod
35	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 stand	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 began	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 began	cc
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 dance	mark
40	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 began	xcomp
41	too	too	ADV	_	40 dance	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dance					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	the tanuki	Jimmu's steps				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Eventuality
3	move	past			one side		first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory
4	not stand	could	the people			still	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	dance	to-infinitive						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	step		Jimmu					nom step «act transitive»: 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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