The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 45
Then she was so delighted that she began to dance, and the man got leave to stay all night.
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 | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | conj |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 got | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stay | mark |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 leave | advcl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | 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 | 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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