The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 38

The boy understood what he must do, and played with all his might, but the maidens danced on till evening.

Who acts: boy, maidens · What happens: understand, do, play, dance

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, maidens), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 understood	nsubj
3	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 understood	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 played	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 played	cc
10	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 understood	conj
11	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 might	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 might	det:predet
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 might	nmod:poss
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 played	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 danced	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 danced	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maidens	det
18	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 danced	nsubj
19	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 understood	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 evening	case
21	till	till	ADP	_	22 evening	case
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 danced	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	understand	past	the boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	do	must	boy		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	past	the boy not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dance	past	the maidens	evening	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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