The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 41
The maiden thought she must be dreaming, but in came three servants richly dressed, who asked what were her commands.
Who acts: maiden thought · What happens: dream, come, dress, ask, be · To what, where: three, commands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden thought), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thought | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | amod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dreaming | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dreaming | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dreaming | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dreaming | aux |
| 7 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 came | case |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dreaming | parataxis |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | servants | servant | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dressed | aux |
| 14 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 15 dressed | advmod |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 came | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 commands | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 commands | cop |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 commands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dreaming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | must · progressive | the maiden thought | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | dress | present · passive | three | richly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | maiden's commands | 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 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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