The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 21
The dream of the second was that the King had brought her a spinning wheel and a distaff, that she might spin him some shirts.
Who acts: child · What happens: bring, spin · To what, where: dream, king
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 (child), 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 dream | det |
| 2 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 second | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 second | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 dream | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 brought | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wheel | det |
| 14 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 wheel | amod |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 distaff | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 distaff | det |
| 18 | distaff | distaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wheel | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spin | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 spin | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spin | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 spin | aux |
| 23 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 brought | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spin | obj |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 shirts | det |
| 26 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spin | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the dream of the second | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | spin | might | child | king | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent he=Theme shirt=Result |
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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