The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 3

And now all the little dreams came about him, thousands and thousands of little children, and they made a ring around him and sang a little song:

Who acts: little dreams, dreams · What happens: come, make, sing · To what, where: thousands, ring, little song

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 (little dreams, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 came	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dreams	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dreams	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dreams	amod
6	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thousands	punct
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thousands	cc
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thousands	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 children	case
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thousands	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ring	det
22	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
23	around	around	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sang	cc
26	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 made	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 song	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 song	amod
29	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sang	obj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	all little dreams	thousands of little children and thousands	now	about Lasse	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about he=Location
2	make	past	dreams = dream	a ring		around Lasse	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product
3	sing speech: express	past	dreams = dream not said here	a little song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

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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