The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 19
He got this dream told to some one, so that the king at last came to hear of it, and had him taken up out of the pit and brought before him.
Who acts: beak, king · What happens: get, tell, come, hear, have, take up · To what, where: dream, one, beak, pit · 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 (beak, king), 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 | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dream | det |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dream | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 told | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 king | nmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hear | mark |
| 18 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 came | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hear | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | obj |
| 25 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 had | xcomp |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 taken | compound:prt |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 pit | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 pit | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pit | det |
| 30 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taken | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 brought | cc |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 had | conj |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | beak | this dream | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | this dream not said here | some one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the king at last | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | the king at last not said here | of dream | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | have | past | beak | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | take up | participle | beak not said here | the pit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent out pit=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | bring | past | before beak | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
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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