The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 20

The eldest said she had dreamed that he brought her a dress, and the precious stones and gold embroidery on it were brighter than the sun.

Who acts: eldest, child, king, precious stones · What happens: say, dream, bring, be · To what, where: dress, child · 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 (eldest, child, king, precious stones), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dreamed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dreamed	aux
6	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 brought	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 brought	nsubj
9	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dreamed	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 brought	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dress	det
12	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brighter	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 brighter	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stones	det
16	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stones	amod
17	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 brighter	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 embroidery	cc
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 embroidery	compound
20	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stones	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 embroidery	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brighter	cop
24	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 said	parataxis
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 sun.	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sun.	det
27	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brighter	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the eldest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dream	past · perfect	child				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	bring	past	king	a dress	child		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination dress=Theme
4	is	past	the precious stones and gold embroidery on embroidery			than the sun.; bright property	tree rules

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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