The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 21
They began to tell each other their dreams.
Who acts: travellers · What happens: begin, tell, dream · To what, where: each · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travellers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 tell | mark |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 tell | obj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | travellers = traveller | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | travellers = traveller not said here | each | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient dream=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dream | travellers = traveller | nom dream «cognition transitive»: 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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