The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 65

There, dancing on the current, was the point of something white, which became more and more distant the longer they watched it.

Who acts: dancing, eyes · What happens: dance, be, become, watch · To what, where: current, point

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancing, eyes), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 ,	expl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dancing	punct
3	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 point	csubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 current	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 current	det
6	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dancing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dancing	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 point	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 point	det
10	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 something	case
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 point	nmod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 something	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 something	acl:relcl
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 became	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 distant	cc
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 distant	advmod
20	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 longer	det
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 watched	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 watched	nsubj
24	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 distant	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 watched	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 point	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund			the current		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on current=Location
2	is a	past	dancing	the point		of something	tree rules
3	become	past				distant property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	watch	past	eyes = eye	point		long property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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