The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 80
In the night he dreamed that he was living in the forest and could understand all that the birds said to each other.
Who acts: prince, birds · What happens: dream, live, understand, say · To what, where: forest, each · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, birds), 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 | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dreamed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dreamed | nsubj |
| 5 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 living | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 living | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 living | aux |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 dreamed | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 understand | cc |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 understand | aux |
| 15 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dreamed | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 said | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 said | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 birds | det |
| 19 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 understand | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 each | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 each | fixed |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | prince | night | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | live | past · progressive | prince | the forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | understand | could | prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the birds | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
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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