The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 10
Then they joined hands and danced round it, singing:
Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: join, dance, sing · To what, where: hands, fire
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 joined | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 joined | nsubj |
| 3 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 joined | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 danced | cc |
| 6 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 joined | conj |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 danced | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 singing | punct |
| 10 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 danced | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | dwarfs = dwarf | hands | then | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | dance | participle | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | fire | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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