The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 3

I would sometimes lie down and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at last the boys and girls ventured to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair.

Who acts: I, five, last boys · What happens: lie down, let, dance, venture, come, play · To what, where: hand, hide, hair

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, five, last boys), 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 lie	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	aux
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 lie	advmod
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lie	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	conj
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 dance	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 six	cc
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 five	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 six	nmod
13	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 let	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dance	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 ventured	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ventured	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boys	amod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boys	det
22	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ventured	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 girls	cc
24	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 boys	conj
25	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 come	mark
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ventured	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 play	cc
29	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 hide	case
31	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 play	obl
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 seek	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 seek	cc
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 and	punct
35	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 hide	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 hair	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hair	nmod:poss
38	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seek	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	would	I		sometimes property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	infinitive	I not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	dance	present	five	my hand		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location
4	venture	past	the last boys and girls			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	to-infinitive	the last boys and girls not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	play	infinitive	the last boys and girls not said here	hide		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	seek	infinitive	the last boys and girls not said here	my hair		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in hair=Location

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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