The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 76

Before that, you shall dance in the air!’

Who acts: you · What happens: dance · To what, where: air

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 dance	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 that	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 dance	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dance	aux
6	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 dance	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 dance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	shall	you			the air	before that		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before that=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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