The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 76

The mink stood up on his hind legs and began to dance, first in one canoe and then in the other; and so graceful was he, that the wolves forgot they were going to put him to death, and howled with pleasure.

Who acts: mink, wolves · What happens: stand up, begin, dance, be, forget, go · To what, where: hind legs, one canoe, Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mink, wolves), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mink	det
2	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stood	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 legs	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
7	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 legs	amod
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 dance	mark
12	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 first	punct
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 dance	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 canoe	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 canoe	nummod
17	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dance	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 other	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 other	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 other	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 canoe	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 graceful	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 graceful	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 graceful	advmod
26	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stood	parataxis
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 he	cop
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 graceful	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 forgot	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 forgot	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wolves	det
32	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 forgot	nsubj
33	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 graceful	conj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 going	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 going	aux
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 forgot	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 put	mark
38	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 going	xcomp
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 put	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 death	case
41	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 howled	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 howled	cc
44	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 pleasure	case
46	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 howled	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	the mink			Wolf's hind legs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
2	begin	past	the mink not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dance	to-infinitive	the mink not said here			one canoe	first property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location
4	is a	past		Wolf				tree rules
5	forget	past	the wolves					tree rules
6	go	past · progressive	Mink					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	put	to-infinitive	Mink not said here		Wolf		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
8	howl	past					with pleasure	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pleasure=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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