The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 14
The dance began; and as pretty a dance it was as ever was danced.
Who acts: dance · What happens: begin, dance · To what, where: dance
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dance | det |
| 2 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 dance | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dance | cc |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 9 dance | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dance | det |
| 9 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 danced | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 danced | aux:pass |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 danced | mark |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 danced | advmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 danced | aux:pass |
| 15 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dance | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the dance | a dance | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dance | past · passive | a dance not said here | dance | ever | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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