Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 27

And he began to dance more than ever.

Who acts: Albion · What happens: begin, dance · To what, where: more

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Whale Got His Throat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Albion), 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	_	3 began	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dance	mark
5	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 dance	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 more	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Albion						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dance	to-infinitive	Albion not said here	more					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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