English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 37
Then the fairies would fan him till he could rise again and go on dancing.
Who acts: fairies, prince · What happens: fan, rise, go · To what, where: prince, dancing
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 (fairies, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 fan | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fairies | det |
| 3 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fan | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fan | aux |
| 5 | fan | fan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fan | obj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 rise | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rise | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 rise | aux |
| 10 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fan | advcl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 rise | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rise | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 dancing | case |
| 15 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fan | would | the fairies | prince | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rise | could | prince | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | prince not said here | dancing | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on dancing=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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