The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 77

And while he was dancing, he put a gold ring on her finger without her seeing it, and he commanded that the dance should last longer than usual.

Who acts: King, dance · What happens: dance, put, see, command, last · To what, where: gold ring, finger, ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, dance), 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	_	8 put	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 dancing	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dancing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dancing	aux
5	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 put	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dancing	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ring	det
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ring	compound
11	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 finger	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 finger	nmod:poss
14	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 seeing	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 seeing	nmod:poss
17	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 put	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seeing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 commanded	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 commanded	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 commanded	nsubj
22	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 last	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dance	det
25	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 last	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 last	aux
27	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 commanded	advcl
28	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 last	advmod
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 usual	case
30	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 longer	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	King				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past	King	a gold ring	cook's finger		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination
3	see	gerund	King not said here	ring			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	command	past	King				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
5	last	should	the dance			long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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 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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