The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 34

When the bear heard the music he could not help dancing, and after he had danced some time he was so pleased that he said to the tailor, ‘I say, is fiddling difficult?’

Who acts: bear, time, I · What happens: hear, not help, dance, be, say, fiddle · To what, where: music, dancing, tailor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, time, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 music	det
6	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 help	advmod
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	ccomp
11	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 danced	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 danced	cc
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 danced	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 danced	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 danced	aux
17	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 heard	conj
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pleased	nsubj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pleased	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pleased	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 pleased	advmod
23	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 danced	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 said	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pleased	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 tailor	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tailor	det
29	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 say	nsubj
33	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 tailor	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fiddling	punct
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 fiddling	aux
36	fiddling	fiddle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heard	ccomp
37	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fiddling	xcomp
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	36 fiddling	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 fiddling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the bear	the music			tree rules
2	not help	could	bear	dancing			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Beneficiary
3	dance	past · perfect	bear				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	some time			pleased property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	bear		the tailor		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to tailor=Recipient
6	say speech: assert	present	I	the tailor not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic
7	fiddle	present · progressive				difficult property	vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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