The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 170
‘Oh, very well, but I dreamed that a flea had bitten me, and I seem to feel it still.’
Who acts: I · What happens: dream, bite, seem, feel · To what, where: flea
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 9 dreamed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 well | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 dreamed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreamed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 dreamed | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 dreamed | nsubj |
| 9 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 bitten | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flea | det |
| 12 | flea | flea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bitten | aux |
| 14 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dreamed | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bitten | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seem | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seem | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 seem | nsubj |
| 19 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dreamed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 feel | mark |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seem | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 feel | obj |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 feel | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreamed | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | I | well property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bite | past · perfect · passive | a flea | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient i=Result | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | I | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | I not said here | flea | still | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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