The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 25

But for her comfort she dreamt the same dream a third time, and betook herself once more to the old witch’s hut in the flowery meadow.

Who acts: wife · What happens: dreamt, betake, comfort · To what, where: same dream, wife

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (wife), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 dreamt	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 comfort	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 comfort	nmod:poss
4	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dreamt	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dreamt	nsubj
6	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dream	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dream	amod
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dreamt	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dreamt	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 betook	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 betook	cc
15	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dreamt	conj
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 betook	obj
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 betook	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	24 hut	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 witch	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 witch	amod
22	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hut	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 witch	case
24	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 betook	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 meadow	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 meadow	det
27	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 meadow	amod
28	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hut	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dreamt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dreamt	past	wife	the same dream	time	for wife's comfort	tree rules
2	betake	past	wife not said here	wife		to the old witch's hut in the flowery meadow	tree rules
3	comfort		wife				nom comfort «state 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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