The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 82

I can never dance, except with my husband.

Who acts: I · What happens: not dance

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dance	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dance	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 dance	advmod
4	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 husband	punct
6	except	except	ADP	_	9 husband	case
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 husband	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dance	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dance	can	I					except my husband	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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