More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 63

I'll tell thee, poor silly country fellow, that I myself dream too o' nights, and that last night I dreamt myself to be in Swaffham, a place clean unknown to me, but in Norfolk if I mistake not, and methought I was in an orchard behind a pedlar's house, and in that orchard was a great oak-tree.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, dream, dreamt, be, not mistake, methought · To what, where: poor silly country fellow, thee, myself, Swaffham, orchard, great oak tree · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 tell	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fellow	punct
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellow	amod
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellow	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fellow	compound
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dream	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 dream	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 dream	nsubj
13	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	12 I	obl:unmarked
14	dream	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	parataxis
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 o	advmod
16	o	o	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nights	amod
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 o	punct
18	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dream	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dreamt	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dreamt	cc
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 night	det
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 night	amod
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dreamt	obl:unmarked
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 dreamt	nsubj
25	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dream	parataxis
26	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 dreamt	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	30 Swaffham	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 Swaffham	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 Swaffham	case
30	Swaffham	Swaffham	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 dreamt	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 place	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Swaffham	appos
34	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 place	amod
35	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 place	amod
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 unknown	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Norfolk	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 Norfolk	cc
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 Norfolk	case
41	Norfolk	Norfolk	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Swaffham	conj
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 mistake	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 mistake	nsubj
44	mistake	mistake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 Norfolk	advcl
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 mistake	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 methought	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 methought	cc
48	methought	methought	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dreamt	conj
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 orchard	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 orchard	cop
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 orchard	case
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 orchard	det
53	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 methought	ccomp
54	behind	behind	ADP	_	58 house	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 pedlar	det
56	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 house	nmod:poss
57	's	's	PART	_	56 pedlar	case
58	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 orchard	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 tree	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 tree	cc
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 orchard	case
62	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 orchard	det
63	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 tree	obl
64	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 tree	cop
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 tree	det
66	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 tree	amod
67	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 tree	compound
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 oak	punct
69	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 methought	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	poor silly country fellow	thee				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
2	dream	present	I				night		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	dreamt	past	I	myself			night		tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive				Swaffham but Norfolk			tree rules
5	not mistake a condition, not said to happen	present	I						tree rules
6	methought	past	I not said here						tree rules
7	is	past	I			a orchard		behind a pedlar's house	tree rules
8	is a	past		a great oak tree		that orchard			tree rules

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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