More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 60
"Well, kind sir, to tell the truth, I dreamed that if I came hither, I should hear good news."
Who acts: kind sir, Friend · What happens: tell, dream, come, hear · To what, where: truth, good news · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (kind sir, Friend), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 tell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sir | amod |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 truth | det |
| 10 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dreamed | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 dreamed | nsubj |
| 13 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 hear | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hear | advcl |
| 18 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 hear | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hear | aux |
| 22 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dreamed | ccomp |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 news | amod |
| 24 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hear | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | kind sir | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | dream in a quote | past | Friend | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | Friend | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | should | Friend | good 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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