The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 18
At this time the brother in the serpent-pit dreamed that his right sister had come swimming to the king’s palace in the shape of a duck, and that she could not regain her own form until her beak was cut off.
Who acts: brother, right sister, sister · What happens: dream, come, swim, not regain, cut off, form · To what, where: palace, own form, beak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, right sister, sister), 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 | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dreamed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dreamed | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pit | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pit | det |
| 8 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pit | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 serpent | punct |
| 10 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | nmod |
| 11 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sister | amod |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 dreamed | ccomp |
| 18 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 come | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 palace | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 king | case |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swimming | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 shape | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shape | det |
| 26 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 palace | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 duck | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 duck | det |
| 29 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shape | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 regain | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 regain | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 regain | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 regain | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 regain | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 regain | advmod |
| 36 | regain | regain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dreamed | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 form | nmod:poss |
| 38 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 form | amod |
| 39 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 regain | obj |
| 40 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 44 cut | mark |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 beak | nmod:poss |
| 42 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 cut | aux:pass |
| 44 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 regain | advcl |
| 45 | off | off | ADP | _ | 44 cut | compound:prt |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | the brother in the serpent pit | time | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | brother's right sister | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | brother's right sister not said here | the king's palace in the shape of a duck | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not regain | could | sister | sister's own form | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cut off | past · passive | sister's beak | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | form | sister | nom form «communication 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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/18/