The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 2

Day after day they went out hunting or fishing; night after night they went to balls or to the opera; they sang, and danced, and ate sugar-plums, and were the gayest of the gay, and all their subjects followed their example so that the kingdom was called the Joyous Land.

Who acts: Day, King, subjects · What happens: go out, go, sing, dance, eat, be · To what, where: hunting, balls, sugar plums, example, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Day, King, subjects), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 day	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	nmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 fishing	cc
9	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunting	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl:unmarked
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 night	nmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 balls	case
17	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 went	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 opera	cc
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 opera	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 opera	det
21	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 balls	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sang	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sang	nsubj
24	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 danced	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 danced	cc
27	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sang	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ate	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ate	cc
30	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 danced	conj
31	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plums	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 sugar	punct
33	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ate	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gayest	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gayest	cc
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 gayest	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 gayest	det
38	gayest	gay	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 ate	advcl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 gay	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 gay	det
41	gay	gay	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gayest	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 followed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 followed	cc
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 subjects	det:predet
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 subjects	nmod:poss
46	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 followed	nsubj
47	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sang	conj
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 example	nmod:poss
49	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 followed	obj
50	so	so	SCONJ	_	55 called	advmod
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 so	fixed
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 kingdom	det
53	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 called	nsubj:pass
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 called	aux:pass
55	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 followed	advcl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Land	det
57	Joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 Land	amod
58	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 called	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Day after day	hunting or fishing				tree rules
2	go	past	King		balls or the opera	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location
3	sing speech: express	past	King					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance	past	King not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	past	King not said here	sugar plums				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=Patient
6	is	past	King not said here				of the gay; gay property	tree rules
7	follow	past	King's subjects	King's example				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Theme
8	call	past · passive		the kingdom				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
9	exemplify		King					nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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