The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 3

In the yard some of the merry children were playing, who had danced so gaily round the tree at Christmas.

Who acts: some · What happens: play, dance · To what, where: Christmas

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 yard	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 yard	det
3	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 playing	obl
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 playing	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 children	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
7	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 some	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 playing	aux
10	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 danced	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 danced	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 danced	aux
14	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 playing	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 gaily	advmod
16	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 danced	xcomp
17	round	round	ADP	_	19 tree	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tree	det
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 danced	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 Christmas	case
21	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 danced	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 playing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	some					in the yard	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dance	past · perfect				Christmas		round the tree; gaily property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at christmas=Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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