The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 103

But when it was morning, and the King and Queen were drinking tea, the Princess said that the night before she had had such a strange dream about a dog and a Soldier: she had ridden on the dog’s back, and the Soldier had kissed her.

Who acts: dog, King, Princess, Queen · What happens: be, drink, say, have, ride, kiss · To what, where: morning, tea, strange dream, Soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, King, Princess, Queen), 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	_	2 when	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 drinking	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 morning	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 morning	cop
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 when	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drinking	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drinking	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 drinking	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Queen	cc
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 King	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drinking	aux
13	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
14	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drinking	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drinking	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	that	that	ADP	_	21 night	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 had	aux
25	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	ccomp
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 dream	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dream	det
28	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dream	amod
29	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
30	about	about	ADP	_	32 dog	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dog	det
32	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dream	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Soldier	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 Soldier	det
35	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dog	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 ridden	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ridden	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 ridden	aux
39	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	conj
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 dog	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 dog	det
42	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ’s	obl
43	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 ridden	conj
44	back	back	ADV	_	43 ’s	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 kissed	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 kissed	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Soldier	det
48	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 kissed	nsubj:pass
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 kissed	aux
50	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 ridden	conj
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 kissed	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dog	morning			tree rules
2	drink	past · progressive	the King and Queen	tea			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the Princess		night		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past · perfect	Queen	such strange dream		about a dog and a Soldier	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
5	ride	past · perfect	Queen				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	kiss	past · perfect · passive		the Soldier			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 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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