Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 87

And all the good people they danced and they sung, And feasted and frolick’d I can’t tell how long.

Who acts: good people, people, frolick ’d · What happens: dance, sung, feast, not tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good people, people, frolick ’d), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 danced	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 people	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 danced	nsubj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 danced	nsubj
7	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sung	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sung	nsubj
10	sung	sung	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 danced	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feasted	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 feasted	cc
13	feasted	feast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 danced	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
15	frolick	frolick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ’d	amod
16	’d	'd	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	nsubj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
18	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 tell	advmod
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 feasted	conj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 tell	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	dance	past	all good people		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sung	present	people		tree rules
3	feast	past	all good people not said here		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not tell speech: assert	can	frolick ’d	long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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