The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 72
Round and round the apples of gold, Round and round dance we; Thus do we dance from the days of old About the enchanted tree; Round, and round, and round we go, While the spring is green, or the stream shall flow, Or the wind shall stir the sea!
Who acts: you, Thus, we, spring, stream, wind · What happens: round, dance, enchant, go, be, flow · To what, where: apples, sea
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Thus, we, spring), 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 | Round | round | ADV | _ | 3 round | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 round | cc |
| 3 | round | round | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 apples | det |
| 5 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 round | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 apples | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Round | punct |
| 9 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 apples | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dance | cc |
| 11 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dance | amod |
| 12 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Round | conj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Round | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 dance | punct |
| 15 | Thus | Thus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 dance | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dance | aux |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 dance | nsubj |
| 18 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 round | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 days | det |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dance | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 old | case |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 days | amod |
| 24 | About | about | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 26 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 tree | amod |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 old | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 Round | punct |
| 29 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 round | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 round | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 round | cc |
| 32 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 round | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 go | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 go | cc |
| 35 | round | round | ADV | _ | 37 go | advmod |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 go | nsubj |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 round | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 green | punct |
| 39 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 43 green | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 spring | det |
| 41 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 green | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 green | cop |
| 43 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 go | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 flow | punct |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 flow | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 stream | det |
| 47 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 flow | nsubj |
| 48 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 flow | aux |
| 49 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 go | parataxis |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 stir | punct |
| 51 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 55 stir | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 wind | det |
| 53 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 stir | nsubj |
| 54 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 stir | aux |
| 55 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 flow | conj |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 sea | det |
| 57 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 stir | obj |
| 58 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 round | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | round | imperative | you not said here | the apples of gold and Round we and round dance | round property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | |||
| 2 | dance | present · do-support | Thus | day | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | go | present | we | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the spring | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | flow | shall | the stream | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | stir | shall | the wind | the sea | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sea=Experiencer |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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