The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 33
Perhaps you have met the same dream-boy with the blue eyes and the fair hair, the one who wore the red cap with the silver band and the white coat with pearls on the collar.
Who acts: you, one · What happens: meet, wear · To what, where: same dream boy, red cap, collar
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 (you, one), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 met | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 met | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | aux |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boy | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 dream | punct |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eyes | det |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 boy | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hair | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hair | det |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hair | amod |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eyes | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boy | appos |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 wore | nsubj |
| 22 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cap | det |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cap | amod |
| 25 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wore | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 band | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 band | det |
| 28 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 band | compound |
| 29 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wore | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 coat | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 coat | det |
| 32 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 coat | amod |
| 33 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 band | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 pearls | case |
| 35 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wore | obl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 collar | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 collar | det |
| 38 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wore | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present · perfect | you | the same dream boy | with the blue eyes and the fair hair; perhaps property | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme with eye=Instrument | |||
| 2 | wear | past | the one | the red cap | the collar | with the silver band and the white coat; with pearls | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=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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