More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 48

He made little count of the dream, but on the following night it come back to him, and again on the third night.

Who acts: salmon, dream · What happens: make, follow, come back · To what, where: little count, salmon

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 (salmon, dream), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 count	amod
4	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 dream	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dream	det
7	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 count	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
12	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
15	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 night	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 night	cc
21	again	again	ADV	_	25 night	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 night	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 night	det
24	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 night	amod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	make	past	salmon	little count of the dream		night	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Product
2	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come back	present	dream		salmon	night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_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: «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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