The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 86

With what eagerness she danced! leaning on her partner’s shoulder she swept by like a whirlwind.

Who acts: hair · What happens: dance, lean, sweep · To what, where: shoulder

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 (hair), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 eagerness	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 eagerness	nsubj
3	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 danced	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 danced	nsubj
5	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 leaning	punct
7	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 danced	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 shoulder	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 partner	nmod:poss
10	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoulder	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 partner	case
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaning	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 swept	nsubj
14	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shoulder	acl:relcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 whirlwind	case
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 whirlwind	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 whirlwind	det
18	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swept	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past	hair			with eagerness	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lean	gerund	hair not said here		hair's partner's shoulder		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location
3	sweep	past	hair	hair's partner's shoulder not said here		by a whirlwind	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme by whirlwind=Trajectory

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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