The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 44

In the height of all these doings, what should there be dancing among the outlandish set of fishes but a beautiful young woman--as beautiful as the dawn of day!

What happens: dance · To what, where: doings

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	In	in	ADP	_	3 height	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 height	det
3	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 doings	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 doings	det:predet
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 doings	det
7	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 height	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dancing	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 dancing	obj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 dancing	aux
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 dancing	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 dancing	aux
13	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 doings	acl
14	among	among	ADP	_	17 set	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 set	det
16	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 set	amod
17	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dancing	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 fishes	case
19	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 set	nmod
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 woman	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 woman	det
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	conj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 beautiful	punct
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 beautiful	case
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 height	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 dawn	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dawn	det
30	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beautiful	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 day	case
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dawn	nmod
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 height	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	should · progressive		all doings		there		among the outlandish set of fishes but a beautiful young woman	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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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