The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 85

“Oh, mother, I had such a nice dream last night,” said he; “but I can’t tell it to anybody.”

Who acts: Boy · What happens: have, say, not tell · To what, where: nice dream, dream, anybody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy), 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	_	7 had	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 had	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 dream	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dream	det
10	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dream	amod
11	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
22	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 tell	advmod
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 anybody	case
27	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 tell	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	Boy	such nice dream		night	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	Boy	dream	anybody		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to anybody=Recipient

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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