The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 24

They danced so long that it seemed as if they would never stop, till the turtle who was leading the singing suddenly broke into a loud chant:

Who acts: prisoners, it, turtle, singing · What happens: dance, seem, not stop, lead, break · To what, where: turtle, singing, loud chant

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 (prisoners, it, turtle, singing), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 danced	nsubj
2	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 danced	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 seemed	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seemed	nsubj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 danced	advcl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 stop	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 stop	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stop	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stop	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 stop	advmod
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seemed	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turtle	punct
15	till	till	ADP	_	17 turtle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 turtle	det
17	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stop	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 leading	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 leading	aux
20	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 turtle	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 singing	det
22	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leading	obj
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 broke	advmod
24	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 singing	acl:relcl
25	into	into	ADP	_	28 chant	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 chant	det
27	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 chant	amod
28	chant	chant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 broke	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dance	past	prisoners = prisoner		long property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	not stop a condition, not said to happen	would	prisoners = prisoner	the turtle		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality turtle=Eventuality
4	lead	past · progressive	the turtle	the singing		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent singing=Theme
5	break	past	the singing not said here		into a loud chant result; suddenly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into chant=Result

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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