The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 24

In short, when they talked four hours together, they said not half what they had to say.

Who acts: dreams · What happens: talk, not say, have, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreams), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 short	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 talked	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 talked	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talked	nsubj
6	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 short	conj
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hours	nummod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talked	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 talked	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 said	advmod
14	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 what	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 said	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	dreams = dream	hour	together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not say speech: assert	past	dreams = dream			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	have	past	dreams = dream			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	dreams = dream not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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