The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 22

But the youngest said: “I dreamed that my second sister was to be married, and on her wedding-day, you, father, held a golden ewer and said: ‘Come, Miranda, and I will hold the water that you may dip your hands in it.’”

Who acts: youngest, you, water · What happens: say, dream, marry, hold, come, dip · To what, where: second sister, golden ewer, Miranda, water, hands · 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 (youngest, you, water), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youngest	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 dreamed	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 dreamed	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 dreamed	nsubj
8	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 married	mark
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 sister	amod
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 married	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 married	aux:pass
14	to	to	PART	_	16 married	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 married	aux:pass
16	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dreamed	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 held	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 held	cc
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 day	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 day	nmod:poss
21	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 day	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 wedding	punct
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 held	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 day	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 held	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 father	punct
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 you	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 father	punct
29	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 ewer	det
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ewer	amod
32	ewer	ewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 held	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 held	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 Come	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 Come	punct
37	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 said	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Miranda	punct
39	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Come	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 hold	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 hold	cc
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 hold	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 hold	aux
44	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 Come	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 water	det
46	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hold	obj
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 dip	nsubj
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 dip	nsubj
49	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 dip	aux
50	dip	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 water	acl:relcl
51	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 hands	nmod:poss
52	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 dip	obj
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 it	case
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 dip	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 Come	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 Come	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the youngest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	dream in a quote	past	the youngest = young				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry in a quote	past · passive		my second sister			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	hold in a quote	past	you	a golden ewer		day	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ewer=Theme
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come in a quote	infinitive		Miranda			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hold in a quote	future	the youngest = young	the water			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
8	dip in a quote	may	the water	your hands	water		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in it=Trajectory

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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