The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 24
Last night I dreamed that I was walking in a wood, where the trees were covered with golden apples.
Who acts: I · What happens: dream, walk, cover · To what, where: wood, trees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 night | amod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dreamed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dreamed | nsubj |
| 4 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 walking | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 walking | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walking | aux |
| 8 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dreamed | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 covered | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 covered | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | aux:pass |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wood | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 apples | case |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 apples | amod |
| 20 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | I | night | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | walk | past · progressive | I | a wood | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cover | past · passive | the trees | with golden apples | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with apple=Theme |
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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