The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 287

Now after the days of mourning were at an end, the wife was sleeping at her husband’s side, and in her sleep she dreamed that she was once more in her father’s house, and when she woke up it was no dream.

Who acts: days, wife, mourning · What happens: be, sleep, dream, wake up · To what, where: side, sleep, house, dream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, wife, mourning), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 sleeping	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	10 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 end	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mourning	case
6	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 end	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sleeping	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 end	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sleeping	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sleeping	aux
15	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	at	at	ADP	_	20 side	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 husband	nmod:poss
18	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 side	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 husband	case
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sleeping	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dreamed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dreamed	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 sleep	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sleep	nmod:poss
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dreamed	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dreamed	nsubj
27	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sleeping	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 house	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 house	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 house	cop
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 house	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 house	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 house	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 father	case
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dreamed	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 dream	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 dream	cc
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 woke	advmod
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 woke	nsubj
42	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 dream	advcl
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 woke	compound:prt
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 dream	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 dream	cop
46	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	47 dream	det
47	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 house	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 sleeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past	the days of mourning			after a end	tree rules
2	sleep	past · progressive	the wife		wife's husband's side	now	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dream	past	wife		wife's sleep		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	wife		wife's father's house and no dream		tree rules
5	wake up	past	wife				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is a	past	mourning	no dream			tree rules
7	sleep		wife				nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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 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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