The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 114
'I dreamed that you were girt with a sword and became king of Lochlann.'
Who acts: I, you · What happens: dream, girt, become · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | _ | 3 dreamed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 dreamed | nsubj |
| 3 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 girt | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 girt | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girt | aux |
| 7 | girt | girt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dreamed | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sword | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girt | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreamed | conj |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Lochlann | case |
| 15 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dreamed | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | I | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | girt | past | you | with a sword | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | past | I not said here | king of Lochlann | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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