The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 67

In short, they talked four hours together, and yet they said not half what they had to say.

Who acts: dreams · What happens: talk, not say, have, say · To what, where: short · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	In	in	ADP	_	2 short	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 talked	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 short	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	nsubj
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hours	nummod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 together	obl:unmarked
8	together	together	ADV	_	5 talked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 said	advmod
15	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 what	advmod
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 said	obj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	dreams = dream	short		together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not say speech: assert	past	dreams = dream		yet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	have	past	dreams = dream				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	dreams = dream not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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