The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 288
And the man dreamed that he was on the dust-heap, scratching.
Who acts: man · What happens: dream, be, scratch · To what, where: dust heap · 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 (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dreamed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dreamed | nsubj |
| 4 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 heap | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heap | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heap | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 heap | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heap | det |
| 10 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heap | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 dust | punct |
| 12 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dreamed | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scratching | punct |
| 14 | scratching | scratch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dreamed | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | the man | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | man | the dust heap | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scratch | gerund | the man not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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