English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 21
Well, one day there was to be a great dance a little way off, and the servants were allowed to go and look on at the grand people.
Who acts: servants · What happens: be, allow, go, look on · To what, where: great dance, servants
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 11 dance | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dance | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 dance | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dance | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dance | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dance | amod |
| 11 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 off | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | off | off | ADV | _ | 11 dance | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 allowed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 allowed | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 servants | det |
| 19 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 allowed | aux:pass |
| 21 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 dance | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 allowed | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 look | cc |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 look | compound:prt |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 people | det |
| 29 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 look | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great dance | off property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | allow | past · passive | the servants | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the servants not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look on | infinitive | the servants not said here | at the grand people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at people=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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