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title: Up she danced at last to Maurice, who was flinging his feet from und… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Up she danced at last to Maurice, who was flinging his feet from under him as fast as hops--for nothing in this world could keep still while that tune of his was going on--and says she to him, chanting it out with a voice as sweet as honey: Who acts: heaven, nothing, Maurice. A sentence of «The Lila
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 47

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Up she danced at last to Maurice, who was flinging his feet from under him as fast as hops--for nothing in this world could keep still while that tune of his was going on--and says she to him, chanting it out with a voice as sweet as honey:

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**Who acts:** heaven, nothing, Maurice · **What happens:** dance, fling, keep, go on, say, chant out · **To what, where:** Maurice, last, feet, tune, heaven, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaven, nothing, Maurice), 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:pg3454:18:47
# text = Up she danced at last to Maurice, who was flinging his feet from under him as fast as hops--for nothing in this world could keep still while that tune of his was going on--and says she to him, chanting it out with a voice as sweet as honey:
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hops	hop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
33	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	acl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	chanting	chant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	as	as	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
53	as	as	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | heaven |  | Maurice | last |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **fling** | past · progressive |  | Maurice's feet |  |  |  | from Maurice; fast *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent foot=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **keep** | could | nothing | that tune |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go on** | past · progressive | Maurice | that tune *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | heaven | Maurice |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 6 | **chant out** | gerund |  | world |  |  |  | with a voice | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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