The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 98
The night following his death, the son dreamed that an unknown man appeared to him and said: “Listen to me; your father is dead and your mother will soon die, and all their riches will belong to you.
Who acts: night, son, unknown man, father, mother, riches · What happens: follow, dream, appear, say, listen, be · To what, where: death, son, unknown man, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, son, unknown man, father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreamed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 night | acl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 death | nmod:poss |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 following | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreamed | nsubj |
| 9 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | mark |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dreamed | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 appeared | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 appeared | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Listen | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Listen | punct |
| 21 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 Listen | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 dead | punct |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dead | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 dead | cop |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Listen | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 die | cc |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 die | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 die | aux |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 die | advmod |
| 34 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 dead | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 belong | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 belong | cc |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 riches | det:predet |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 riches | nmod:poss |
| 39 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 belong | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 belong | aux |
| 41 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Listen | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 you | case |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 belong | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | the night not said here | man's death | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dream | past | the son | night | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | a unknown man | son | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a unknown man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | listen in a quote | infinitive | a unknown man = man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | your father | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | die in a quote | future | your mother | soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | belong in a quote | future | besides's riches | you | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | die | man | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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