The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 204

and dancing in summer by the light of the moon.

What happens: dance, light · To what, where: moon

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: 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	_	2 dancing	cc
2	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 summer	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dancing	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 light	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dancing	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moon	det
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dancing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund					summer	by the light of the moon	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by light=Location
2	light			the moon					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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