The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 31
Then she was so delighted that she began to dance, and thus the man got leave to stay the night there.
Who acts: woman, man · What happens: be, begin, dance, get, leave, stay
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 began | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dance | mark |
| 10 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 got | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | conj |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 got | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 stay | mark |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 leave | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stay | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woman | then | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | past | woman | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | dance | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | past | the man | thus property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | the man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stay | to-infinitive | the man not said here | there | night | vn exist-47.1 «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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