The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 38
That very night Prince Sigurd had a dream, in which he thought his father appeared to him in dripping clothes, and, taking the crown from his head, laid it at his son’s feet, leaving the room as silently as he had entered it.
Who acts: night, Prince, father · What happens: have, think, appear, drip, take, lay · To what, where: dream, Prince, dripping clothes, crown, head, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Prince, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 night | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 night | advmod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 night | appos |
| 5 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | flat |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dream | det |
| 8 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 thought | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 appeared | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 clothes | case |
| 20 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 clothes | amod |
| 21 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 appeared | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 taking | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 taking | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 taking | punct |
| 25 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 appeared | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 crown | det |
| 27 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taking | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taking | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 laid | punct |
| 32 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 appeared | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 laid | obj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 feet | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 son | nmod:poss |
| 36 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 feet | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 son | case |
| 38 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 laid | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 leaving | punct |
| 40 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 laid | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 room | det |
| 42 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 leaving | obj |
| 43 | as | as | ADV | _ | 44 silently | advmod |
| 44 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 40 leaving | advmod |
| 45 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 entered | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 entered | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 entered | aux |
| 48 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 silently | advcl |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 entered | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | that night | a dream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | Prince's father | Prince | dripping clothes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clothes=Location | |||
| 4 | drip | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 5 | take | gerund | Prince's father not said here | the crown | Prince's head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent crown=Theme from head=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | lay | past | Prince's father not said here | crown | Prince's son's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 7 | leave | gerund | Prince's father not said here | the room | silently property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 8 | enter | past · perfect | father | room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
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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