Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 53

‘The dream may have been true,’ said the king.

Who acts: dream · What happens: be, say · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream), 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 true	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dream	det
3	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 true	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 true	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 true	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 true	cop
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may · perfect	the dream					true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the king					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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