The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 28

At length, one night when he was asleep, he dreamt that the dog appeared to him and told him to cut down the fig-tree over his grave, and out of its wood to make a mortar.

Who acts: man, dog · What happens: be, dreamt, appear, tell, cut down, make · To what, where: length, man, fig tree, grave, mortar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, dog), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dreamt	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 night	nummod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	appos
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asleep	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dreamt	nsubj
12	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 appeared	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dog	det
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 appeared	nsubj
16	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dreamt	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 appeared	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 appeared	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cut	mark
23	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	xcomp
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 cut	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tree	det
26	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tree	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 fig	punct
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	obj
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 grave	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 grave	nmod:poss
31	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wood	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 wood	cc
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 wood	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 wood	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wood	nmod:poss
37	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dreamt	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 make	mark
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 wood	acl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 mortar	det
41	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 make	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dreamt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	man				asleep property	tree rules
2	dreamt	past	man			length	out tree's wood	tree rules
3	appear	past	the dog		man			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	the dog not said here		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	cut down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	the fig tree		man's grave		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product
6	make	to-infinitive	man not said here	a mortar				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mortar=Product

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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