The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 79

Now nearer, now further apart,' he would cry as the dance went on. '

Who acts: Wolf, dance · What happens: cry, go on

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 (Wolf, dance), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 nearer	advmod
2	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 apart	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 apart	advmod
5	further	further	ADV	_	6 apart	advmod
6	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 nearer	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cry	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 cry	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cry	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cry	aux
11	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 apart	parataxis
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dance	det
14	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cry	advcl
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nearer	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 nearer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	would	Wolf						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go on	past	the dance						vn function-105.2.1 «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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