The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 19
“And now,” said he, “as I have supped well, and it is not time yet to go to bed, tell me what you dreamed last night.”
Who acts: king, sight, you · What happens: say, sup, not be, go, tell, dream · To what, where: time, bed, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, sight, you), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 supped | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 supped | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 supped | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 supped | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 supped | aux |
| 13 | supped | sup | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 supped | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 time | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 time | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 time | advmod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 supped | obl |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 supped | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tell | punct |
| 27 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | conj |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 tell | iobj |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 dreamed | obj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 dreamed | nsubj |
| 31 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 tell | ccomp |
| 32 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 night | amod |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dreamed | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sup in a quote | present · perfect | king | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | sight | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | king not said here | bed | yet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | king not said here | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | dream in a quote | past | you | night | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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