The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 67

And they all began to sing and to jump one after another across the fire.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: begin, sing, jump · To what, where: one, fire

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 (eyes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sing	mark
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 jump	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 jump	mark
9	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sing	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 jump	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	nmod
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jump	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	eyes = eye				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jump	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here	one	the fire	after another	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent one=Theme across fire=Trajectory

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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