The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 57
These thoughts haunted him all day, and he dreamt them all night.
Who acts: thoughts, friend · What happens: haunt, dreamt · To what, where: friend, comparisons
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, friend), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 thoughts | det |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 haunted | nsubj |
| 3 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 haunted | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 haunted | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dreamt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dreamt | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dreamt | nsubj |
| 10 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 haunted | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dreamt | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dreamt | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 haunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haunt | past | this thoughts | friend | day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | dreamt | past | friend | comparisons = comparison | night | 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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