The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 66
As she slept she dreamed that a tall woman came to her and said, ‘I know that you are Princess Hadvor, and are searching for Hermod.
Who acts: strait, tall woman, I, you · What happens: sleep, dream, come, say, know, be · To what, where: strait, Princess Hadvor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strait, tall woman, I, you), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 slept | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dreamed | nsubj |
| 5 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slept | conj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreamed | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 Hadvor | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 Hadvor | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Hadvor | cop |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Hadvor | compound |
| 23 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 know | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 searching | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 searching | cc |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 searching | aux |
| 27 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 slept | advcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Hermod | case |
| 29 | Hermod | Hermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 searching | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | strait | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dream | past | strait | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past | a tall woman | strait | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a tall woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | you | Princess Hadvor | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | search | present · progressive | strait not said here | for Hermod | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for hermod=Theme |
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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