The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 84
‘You’ve been lying in bed, dreaming foolish fancies, mother, and then in your sleep you walked into the water.’
Who acts: You, your · What happens: lie, dream, walk, sleep · To what, where: bed, foolish fancies, sleep, water
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, your), 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 | _ | 5 lying | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 lying | aux |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreaming | punct |
| 9 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lying | conj |
| 10 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fancies | amod |
| 11 | fancies | fancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dreaming | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mother | punct |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fancies | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sleep | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sleep | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 sleep | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sleep | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 walked | nsubj |
| 21 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sleep | acl:relcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present · perfect · progressive | You | bed | in your sleep | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 2 | dream | gerund | You not said here | foolish fancies and mother | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Topic | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | you | your sleep not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme into water=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | sleep | your | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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