The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 202
And this is why the country girls go about singing:
Who acts: this, country girls · What happens: be, go, sing
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, country girls), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 why | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 why | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | cop |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 go | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girls | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girls | compound |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 singing | mark |
| 10 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 go | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | the country girls | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the country girls 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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