English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 36
There she sees the prince dancing, and dancing, and dancing, till he could dance no longer and fell upon a couch.
Who acts: Kate, prince · What happens: see, dance, fall · To what, where: prince dancing, couch
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kate, prince), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sees | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dancing | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dancing | compound |
| 6 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dancing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dancing | cc |
| 9 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dancing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dancing | cc |
| 12 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dance | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 dance | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dance | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 dance | aux |
| 17 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sees | conj |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 dance | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dance | conj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 couch | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 couch | det |
| 24 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Kate | the prince dancing | there | dancing obl; dancing obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancing=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | dance | could | prince | long property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | prince not said here | a couch | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon couch=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: «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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