The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 24
My dreams never deceive me, so I entreat you to follow my advice during the rest of the journey.”
Who acts: dreams, I, My · What happens: not deceive, entreat, follow, dream · To what, where: me, you, advice
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 (dreams, I, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 deceive | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 deceive | advmod |
| 4 | deceive | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 deceive | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 entreat | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 entreat | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 entreat | nsubj |
| 9 | entreat | entreat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 deceive | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 entreat | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 follow | mark |
| 12 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 entreat | xcomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 advice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 follow | obj |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 rest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rest | det |
| 17 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 follow | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 journey | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 journey | det |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rest | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deceive | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 deceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deceive | present | My dreams | me | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | entreat | infinitive | I | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | I not said here | my advice | during the rest of the journey | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | |||
| 4 | dream | My | 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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