The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 87
“It must have been a nice dream, or you wouldn’t look so happy.”
Who acts: dream, you · What happens: be, not look · To what, where: nice dream
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 (dream, you), 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 | _ | 8 dream | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dream | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 dream | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dream | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 dream | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dream | det |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dream | amod |
| 8 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 look | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 look | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 look | advmod |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dream | parataxis |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 happy | advmod |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 look | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dream | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must · perfect | dream | a nice dream | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not look in a quote | would | you | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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