The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 73

'While the line is being made you might as well let me have one last dance,' remarked the mink.

Who acts: you, me · What happens: make, let, have, remark · To what, where: line, me, one last dance, mink

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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	_	12 let	punct
2	While	while	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 line	det
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 let	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
10	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	12 let	cc
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 as	fixed
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 dance	nummod
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dance	amod
17	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 remarked	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 remarked	punct
20	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 let	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mink	det
22	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remarked	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the line	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	let	might	you	me	tree rules
3	have	infinitive	me not said here	one last dance	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient
4	remark speech: assert	participle		the mink	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mink=Topic

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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