The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 47
I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was a wood full of orange trees, and that in one of the oranges I should find a beautiful princess who is to be my wife.
Who acts: I, wood, beautiful princess · What happens: dream, be, find · To what, where: land, beautiful princess, wife · 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, wood, beautiful princess), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 dreamed | nsubj |
| 2 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 land | nmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dreamed | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wood | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trees | amod |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 full | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 one | cc |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 one | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 wood | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 oranges | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 oranges | det |
| 25 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 find | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 oranges | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 princess | det |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 princess | amod |
| 31 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 find | obj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 wife | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 wife | cop |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 wife | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 wife | cop |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 wife | nmod:poss |
| 37 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 princess | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | I | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | past | a wood | the land of the sun; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | should | I | a beautiful princess | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a beautiful princess | my wife | tree rules |
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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