The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 9
She, too, had not seen Omar since his birth, but so many dreams had shown her what he would look like that she felt she would know him among a thousand.
Who acts: queen, many dreams, Omar · What happens: not see, show, look, feel, know · To what, where: Omar, queen
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, many dreams, Omar), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 She | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 seen | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 too | punct |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 seen | advmod |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obj |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 11 birth | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 birth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shown | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 shown | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dreams | amod |
| 16 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shown | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shown | aux |
| 18 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 seen | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shown | obj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 look | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 look | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | aux |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 shown | parataxis |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 look | obl |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 felt | nsubj |
| 27 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | parataxis |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 know | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 know | aux |
| 30 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 felt | ccomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 know | obj |
| 32 | among | among | ADP | _ | 34 thousand | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 thousand | det |
| 34 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 know | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | queen | Omar | since Omar's birth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer omar=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | show | past · perfect | many dreams | queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | look | would | Omar | like that | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | queen | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know | would | queen | Omar | among a thousand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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