More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 47
Now it fell out that one night he dreamed a dream, and therein he saw the great bridge of London town, and it sounded in his ears that if he went there he should hear joyful news.
Who acts: living, salmon, it · What happens: fall out, dream, see, sound, go, hear · To what, where: dream, great bridge, ears, joyful news
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living, salmon, it), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 fell | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 fell | compound:prt |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 dreamed | mark |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 night | nummod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreamed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dreamed | nsubj |
| 9 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dream | det |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreamed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bridge | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bridge | amod |
| 19 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 town | case |
| 21 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 town | compound |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bridge | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sounded | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sounded | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sounded | nsubj |
| 26 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 ears | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 ears | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sounded | obl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 hear | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 went | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 hear | advcl |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 went | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hear | nsubj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 hear | aux |
| 37 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sounded | advcl |
| 38 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 news | amod |
| 39 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hear | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | past | living | now | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dream | past | salmon | a dream | night | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | |||
| 3 | see | past | salmon | the great bridge of London town | therein property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bridge=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sound | past | it | salmon's ears | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | ||||
| 5 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | salmon | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hear | should | salmon | joyful news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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