The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 37
At last one day at sunset Désiré felt the sun so warm, that he thought he must now be near the place of his dream.
Who acts: Désiré, sun · What happens: feel, think, be, dream · To what, where: sun, place · 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 (Désiré, sun), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sunset | case |
| 6 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 7 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 warm | advmod |
| 12 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 thought | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 felt | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 place | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 place | aux |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 place | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 place | cop |
| 21 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dream | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 dream | nmod:poss |
| 26 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 place | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Désiré | the sun | day | warm property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Désiré | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | must | Désiré | the place | now | of sun's dream | tree rules | ||
| 4 | dream | sun | 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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