The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 80

Hadvor told Hermod her dream, and said she suspected there was some one in the island who would be able to help them.

Who acts: Hadvor, island · What happens: tell, say, suspect, be, help, dream · To what, where: dream, Hermod, one, island, women · 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 (Hadvor, island), 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	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dream	nmod:poss
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 suspected	nsubj
10	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 suspected	ccomp
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	det
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 suspected	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 island	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 island	det
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 one	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 able	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 able	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 island	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 help	mark
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Hadvor	Hadvor's dream	Hermod			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hermod=Recipient dream=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Hadvor not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	suspect	past	Hadvor	some one		the island		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent one=Attribute clause=Theme
4	be	past	Hadvor not said here			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	would	the island				able property	tree rules
6	help	to-infinitive	the island not said here	women = woman				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
7	dream		Hadvor					nom dream «cognition 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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