The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 92
My wife must have dreamt of it, and you gentlemen have listened to her nonsense.’
What happens: dreamt, listen · To what, where: wife, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dreamt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreamt | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dreamt | aux |
| 5 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dreamt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 listened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 listened | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 listened | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 listened | aux |
| 13 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dreamt | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 nonsense | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nonsense | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 listened | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreamt | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreamt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dreamt | must · perfect · passive | My wife | of treasure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | present · perfect · passive | you | to wife's nonsense | tree rules |
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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