The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 41
The village girls met and danced in a ring, singing, ‘Beautiful spring, how came you here?
Who acts: village girls · What happens: meet, dance, sing, come · To what, where: ring, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (village girls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girls | det |
| 2 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girls | compound |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 danced | cc |
| 6 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ring | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 danced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 singing | punct |
| 11 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 danced | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spring | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 spring | punct |
| 14 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spring | amod |
| 15 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 singing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 came | advmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spring | acl:relcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obj |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 came | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the village girls | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dance | past | the village girls not said here | a ring | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ring=Location | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the village girls not said here | spring | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | you | here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=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 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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