The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 151

Halvor consented to this at once, and the old woman was so delighted with the horse that she was ready to dance.

Who acts: Halvor, old woman, woman · What happens: consent, be, dance

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, old woman, woman), 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	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 consented	nsubj
2	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 consented	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 consented	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 delighted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 delighted	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 delighted	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 delighted	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 delighted	advmod
14	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 consented	parataxis
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 horse	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horse	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 delighted	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 ready	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ready	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ready	cop
21	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 delighted	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 dance	mark
23	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ready	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	consent	past	Halvor	to this	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme
2	is	past	the old woman	with the horse; delighted property	tree rules
3	is	past	woman	ready property	tree rules
4	dance	to-infinitive	woman not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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