The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 44

First, however, thou must dance before us.

Who acts: thou · What happens: dance

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 dance	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 First	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	7 dance	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 dance	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dance	aux
7	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 dance	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	must	thou				before us	first, however property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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