The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 4

“My dream has come true after all--you have offered me water to wash my hands on my sister’s wedding day, and it has not vexed you to do it.”

Who acts: dream, My · What happens: come, offer, wash, not vex, do, dream · To what, where: you, feast, hands, dream, water

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, My), 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	_	30 vexed	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dream	nmod:poss
3	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 vexed	advcl
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	xcomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 come	obl
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 offered	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 offered	nsubj:pass
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 offered	aux
12	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 come	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 offered	iobj
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 offered	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wash	mark
16	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 offered	advcl
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wash	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	24 day	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sister	nmod:poss
21	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 day	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 sister	case
23	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 day	compound
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wash	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 vexed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 vexed	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 vexed	nsubj:pass
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 vexed	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 vexed	advmod
30	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 vexed	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 vexed	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 do	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 vexed	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · perfect	My dream			after all	true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	offer in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you	feast			tree rules
3	wash in a quote	to-infinitive		my hands		day		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	not vex in a quote	present · perfect · passive		dream				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer you=Result
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive		water				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	dream in a quote		My					nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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