The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 30

‘Twas really then beyond all belief or telling the dancing.

What happens: tell · To what, where: dancing · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	_	2 Twas	punct
2	Twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	7 belief	advmod
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 belief	advmod
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	7 belief	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 belief	det
7	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Twas	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 telling	cc
9	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 belief	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dancing	det
11	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 telling	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Twas	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		the dancing					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dancing=Recipient

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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