The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 87

At a sign from the frog the fairies danced a ballet, with which everyone was so delighted that they begged to have to repeated; but now it was not youths and maidens who were dancing, but flowers.

Who acts: fairies, everyone, hands, ballet, maidens · What happens: dance, be, beg, have, repeat, not be · To what, where: ballet, sign, youths

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, everyone, hands, ballet), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sign	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sign	det
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 danced	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 frog	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 frog	det
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairies	det
8	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 danced	nsubj
9	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ballet	det
11	ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 danced	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 delighted	punct
13	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 delighted	mark
14	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	15 everyone	det
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 delighted	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 delighted	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 delighted	advmod
18	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 danced	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 begged	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 begged	nsubj
21	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 delighted	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 begged	xcomp
24	to	to	SCONJ	_	25 repeated	mark
25	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 youths	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 youths	cc
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 youths	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 youths	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 youths	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 youths	advmod
32	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 danced	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 maidens	cc
34	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 youths	conj
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 dancing	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dancing	aux
37	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 maidens	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 flowers	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 flowers	cc
40	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 youths	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	the fairies	a ballet	a sign from the frog			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ballet=Theme
2	is	past	everyone				delighted property	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	hands = hand					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	hands = hand not said here					tree rules
5	repeat	participle	hands = hand not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	not is a	past	ballet	youths and maidens but flowers		now		tree rules
7	dance	past · progressive	maidens					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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