The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 97

He was not thinking of Gerda, and never dreamt that she was standing outside the palace.

Who acts: Kay, Gerda · What happens: not think, not dreamt, stand · To what, where: palace

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, Gerda), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 thinking	advmod
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Gerda	case
6	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dreamt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dreamt	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 dreamt	advmod
10	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 standing	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 standing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 standing	aux
14	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 dreamt	advcl
15	outside	outside	ADP	_	17 palace	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palace	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 standing	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · progressive	Kay		of Gerda	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not dreamt	past				tree rules
3	stand	past · progressive	Gerda	the palace		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside palace=Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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