The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 192
And they all took hands and danced round the Queen, and Delicia, and the good Fairy, singing: ‘Yes, yes; we will, we will!’
Who acts: people · What happens: take, dance, sing · To what, where: hands
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 took | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 danced | cc |
| 7 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 Queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 danced | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Delicia | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Delicia | cc |
| 13 | Delicia | Delicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Queen | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Fairy | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Fairy | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fairy | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Fairy | amod |
| 18 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 singing | punct |
| 20 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 took | advcl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Yes | punct |
| 23 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 took | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Yes | punct |
| 25 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 23 Yes | discourse |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 will | punct |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 will | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 will | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | obj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | people | hands | the good Fairy obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dance | participle | people not said here | round the Queen and Delicia | vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | people 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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