The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 7

He said that he often did, but that during the last two nights he was listening to a sweet song in his dreams, and could not wake, and that the voice was one that he must have known and loved in some other world long ago.

Who acts: prince, that, voice · What happens: say, do, listen, not wake, be, know · To what, where: one, that, other world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, that, voice), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 did	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 listening	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 listening	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 listening	nsubj
10	during	during	ADP	_	14 nights	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nights	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nights	amod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 nights	nummod
14	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 that	nmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 listening	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 listening	aux
17	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 song	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 song	det
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 song	amod
21	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 listening	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 dreams	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dreams	nmod:poss
24	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 song	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wake	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wake	cc
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 wake	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 wake	advmod
29	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 one	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 one	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 one	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 voice	det
34	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 one	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 one	cop
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 wake	obl
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 known	nsubj:pass
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 known	nsubj:pass
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 known	aux
40	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 known	aux
41	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 one	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 loved	cc
43	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 known	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 world	case
45	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	47 world	det
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 world	amod
47	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 loved	obl
48	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 ago	advmod
49	ago	ago	ADV	_	43 loved	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	prince			often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	past · progressive	that			to a sweet song in prince's dreams	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme
4	not wake	could	prince not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past	the voice	one			tree rules
6	know	must · perfect · passive		that			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
7	love	participle			some other world	ago property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
8	dream		prince				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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