The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 25
“Don’t make such a fuss about a dream,” said the prince; “dreams are but clouds.
Who acts: prince, dreams · What happens: not make, say, be · To what, where: fuss, clouds · 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 (prince, dreams), 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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 fuss | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fuss | det |
| 7 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 dream | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dream | det |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fuss | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 clouds | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 clouds | punct |
| 18 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 clouds | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 clouds | cop |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 clouds | cc |
| 21 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make in a quote | infinitive · do-support | such fuss | about a dream | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | dreams | clouds | 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: «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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