The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 14

In the evening Michael told his friends that he had dreamed the same dream again, but they only laughed at him more than before.

Who acts: Michael, friends · What happens: tell, dream, laugh · To what, where: friends, same dream · 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 (Michael, friends), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
4	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friends	nmod:poss
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 dreamed	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dreamed	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dreamed	aux
11	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dream	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dream	amod
14	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dreamed	obj
15	again	again	ADV	_	11 dreamed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laughed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 laughed	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 laughed	nsubj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 laughed	advmod
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 laughed	obl
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 laughed	advmod
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 before	case
25	before	before	ADV	_	23 more	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Michael		Michael's friends	evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dream	past · perfect	Michael	the same dream		again		vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic
3	laugh	past	friends = friend				at Michael	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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