The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 20

Gracefully he led the fan dance, and glided without a pause into the shadow dance and the umbrella dance, and it seemed as if he might go on dancing for ever.

Who acts: Gracefully, it, Dance · What happens: lead, glide, seem, go · To what, where: fan dance, shadow dance, dancing

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 (Gracefully, it, Dance), 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	Gracefully	Gracefully	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dance	det
5	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	compound
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 glided	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 glided	cc
9	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	conj
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 pause	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pause	det
12	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glided	obl
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 dance	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dance	det
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dance	compound
16	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glided	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dance	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dance	det
19	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dance	compound
20	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dance	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seemed	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	parataxis
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 go	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 go	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 go	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 go	aux
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seemed	xcomp
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 dancing	case
31	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 ever	case
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 go	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	Gracefully	the fan dance			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme
2	glide	past	Gracefully not said here		the shadow dance and the umbrella dance	without a pause	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into dance=Destination
3	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	go a condition, not said to happen	might	Dance		dancing		vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on dancing=Location for ever=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: «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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