The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 23
“Gracious prince, I dreamt that if your Royal Highness would grant all I asked we should get home safe and sound; but if you did not we should certainly be lost.
Who acts: Gracious prince, Royal Highness, I, we, you · What happens: dreamt, grant, ask, get, not do, lose · To what, where: all, we · 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 (Gracious prince, Royal Highness, I, we), 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 | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 2 | Gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dreamt | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 dreamt | nsubj |
| 6 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 grant | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 grant | mark |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Royal | Royal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Highness | compound |
| 11 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grant | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 grant | aux |
| 13 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dreamt | advcl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 grant | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 all | acl:relcl |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 21 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sound | cc |
| 23 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 safe | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 lost | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 lost | cc |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 did | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 did | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 lost | advcl |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 did | advmod |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 lost | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 lost | aux |
| 32 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 34 lost | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 lost | aux:pass |
| 34 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dreamt | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dreamt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dreamt in a quote | past | Gracious prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grant a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | your Royal Highness | all | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | should | we | home, safe property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | lose in a quote | should · passive | we | certainly property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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