The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 23

But, just at present, the turtles were too strong, so the prisoners had to put on their smartest slippers and their brightest clothes, and dance a war dance while the turtles sang.

Who acts: present, prisoners, turtles · What happens: be, have, put, dance, sing · To what, where: smartest slippers, war dance

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present, prisoners, turtles), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 strong	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 present	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 present	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 present	case
5	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strong	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 present	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 turtles	det
8	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 strong	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 strong	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 strong	advmod
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prisoners	det
15	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 strong	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 put	mark
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 slippers	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 slippers	nmod:poss
21	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 slippers	amod
22	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 put	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 clothes	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 clothes	nmod:poss
25	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 clothes	amod
26	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 slippers	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dance	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dance	cc
29	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 put	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dance	det
31	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dance	compound
32	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dance	obj
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 sang	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 turtles	det
35	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sang	nsubj
36	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dance	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	present			strong property	tree rules
2	have	past	the prisoners				tree rules
3	put	to-infinitive	the prisoners not said here		prisoners's smartest slippers and prisoners's brightest clothes		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on slipper=Destination
4	dance	infinitive	the prisoners not said here	a war dance			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme
5	sing speech: express	past	the turtles				vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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