English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 34
“Well, there's to be another dance this evening, and perhaps she'll be there.”
Who acts: dance · What happens: be · To what, where: dance, evening
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 evening | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 's | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 's | expl |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 evening | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 dance | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dance | cop |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 dance | det |
| 9 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 's | nsubj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 there | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 there | cc |
| 14 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 18 there | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 there | nsubj |
| 16 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 there | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 there | cop |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 evening | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 evening | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | another dance | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this evening | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | dance | perhaps, there property | tree rules |
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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