The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 52

“I know a charming new dance that I should like to show you; but it can only be done by two people.

Who acts: giant, two people · What happens: know, like, show, do · To what, where: charming new dance, you, dance

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, two people), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dance	det
5	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dance	compound
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dance	amod
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 like	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dance	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 show	mark
13	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 show	iobj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 done	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 done	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj:pass
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 done	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 done	aux:pass
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 know	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 people	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 people	nummod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 done	obl:agent
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	giant	a charming new dance		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus
2	like in a quote	should	giant	a charming new dance		tree rules
3	show not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	giant not said here		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	do in a quote	can · passive	two people	dance		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality

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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