The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 10

That evening the little cow-boy, who had been thinking a great deal about the advice of the lady in the golden dress, told his dream to the farm people.

Who acts: little cow boy, boy · What happens: think, tell, dream · To what, where: great deal, dream, farm people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little cow boy, boy), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cow	punct
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 evening	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thinking	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thinking	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thinking	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 thinking	aux
12	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 boy	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 deal	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deal	amod
15	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thinking	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 advice	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 advice	det
18	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deal	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 lady	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lady	det
21	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 advice	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 dress	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dress	det
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dress	amod
25	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lady	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dream	nmod:poss
29	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 people	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 people	det
32	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 people	compound
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 told	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · perfect · progressive	the little cow boy	a great deal			about the advice of the lady in the golden dress	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past		boy's dream	the farm people	evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dream=Topic to people=Recipient
3	dream		boy					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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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