The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 19

He had so often been in that grotto in the ‘Land of Nod’ and did not know what tricks dreams can play.

Who acts: Lasse, dreams · What happens: have, be, not know, trick, play · To what, where: grotto · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (Lasse, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 grotto	advmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	8 grotto	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 grotto	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 grotto	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 grotto	det
8	grotto	grotto	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 Land	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Land	det
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Land	punct
12	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grotto	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Nod	case
14	Nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Land	nmod
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 grotto	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 know	cc
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 tricks	nsubj
21	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 know	ccomp
22	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 play	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 play	aux
24	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tricks	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Lasse			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle		that grotto	in the Land of Nod; often property	tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	Lasse not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	trick	present				tree rules
5	play	can	dreams			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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 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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