The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 15

‘One night I dreamt that the fruit was perfectly ripe; I ate some of it, and it was more delicious than anything I had ever tasted in real life.

Who acts: I, fruit · What happens: dreamt, be, eat, taste · To what, where: some, real life

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fruit), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 dreamt	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 night	nummod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dreamt	obl:unmarked
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 dreamt	nsubj
5	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 ripe	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fruit	det
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ripe	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ripe	cop
10	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	11 ripe	advmod
11	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dreamt	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 ate	nsubj
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dreamt	conj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 ate	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 some	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 delicious	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 delicious	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 delicious	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 delicious	cop
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 delicious	advmod
23	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ate	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 anything	case
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 delicious	obl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 tasted	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tasted	aux
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 tasted	advmod
29	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 anything	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 life	case
31	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 life	amod
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tasted	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dreamt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dreamt	past	I			night		tree rules
2	is	past	the fruit				perfectly, ripe property	tree rules
3	eat	past	I	some				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	is	past	fruit				than anything; delicious property	tree rules
5	taste	past · perfect	I		real life	ever		vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in life=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 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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