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title: “Dance,” said Jimmu, and the tanuki did his steps, and moved first o… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Dance,” said Jimmu, and the tanuki did his steps, and moved first on one side and then on the other, till the people could not stand still any longer, and began to dance too. Who acts: Dance, tanuki, people, Jimmu. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 19

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“Dance,” said Jimmu, and the tanuki did his steps, and moved first on one side and then on the other, till the people could not stand still any longer, and began to dance too.

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**Who acts:** Dance, tanuki, people, Jimmu · **What happens:** say, do, move, not stand, begin, dance · **To what, where:** steps, one side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dance, tanuki, people, Jimmu), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:39:19
# text = “Dance,” said Jimmu, and the tanuki did his steps, and moved first on one side and then on the other, till the people could not stand still any longer, and began to dance too.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
33	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	any	any	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	too	too	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dance |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | the tanuki | Jimmu's steps |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Eventuality |
| 3 | **move** | past |  |  |  | one side |  | first *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **stand** | could | the people |  |  |  | still | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **dance** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **step** |  | Jimmu |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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