The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 54
‘The wood that you saw in your dream is not far from here,’ said the old man.
Who acts: you, wood, old man, your · What happens: see, not be, say, dream · To what, where: wood, dream · 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 (you, wood, old man, your), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 far | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wood | det |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 far | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 saw | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wood | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dream | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dream | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 far | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 said | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 here | case |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 far | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 far | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 far | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | you | the wood | your dream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not is | present | the wood | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dream | your | 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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