Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 215

"Now we will commence dancing," said the fairy; "and when it is nearly over at sunset, while I am dancing with you, I shall make a sign, and ask you to follow me: but do not obey.

Who acts: we, fairy, dancing, East Wind · What happens: commence, say, be, dance, make, ask · To what, where: dancing, sign, you, East Wind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, fairy, dancing, East Wind), 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	_	5 commence	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 commence	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 commence	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 commence	aux
5	commence	commence	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 commence	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 commence	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 commence	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 commence	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fairy	det
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 commence	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 commence	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 over	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 over	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 over	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 over	cop
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	19 over	advmod
19	over	over	ADV	_	5 commence	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 sunset	case
21	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 over	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dancing	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 dancing	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 dancing	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dancing	aux
26	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 commence	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 dancing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 make	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 make	aux
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 commence	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sign	det
34	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ask	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 ask	cc
37	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 commence	conj
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 ask	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 follow	mark
40	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 ask	xcomp
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 follow	obj
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 obey	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 obey	cc
44	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 obey	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 obey	advmod
46	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 commence	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 commence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	commence in a quote	future	we	dancing		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the fairy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	dancing			sunset	nearly, over property	tree rules
4	dance in a quote	present · progressive	the East Wind = wind				with you	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make in a quote	shall	the East Wind = wind	a sign				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	we not said here		you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	follow not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	the East Wind = wind				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
8	not obey in a quote	infinitive · do-support	we not said here					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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