The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 38

But that night the dog again appeared in a dream to his master, and told him that he must go and collect the ashes of the burnt mortar and bring them home.

Who acts: man · What happens: appear, tell, go, collect, bring · To what, where: dream, man, ashes · 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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 appeared	cc
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	conj
6	again	again	ADV	_	7 appeared	advmod
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dream	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dream	det
10	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 master	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 master	nmod:poss
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 appeared	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 go	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 collect	cc
23	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ashes	det
25	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 collect	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 mortar	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mortar	det
28	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mortar	amod
29	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ashes	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bring	cc
31	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bring	obj
33	home	home	ADV	_	31 bring	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past				a dream	again; night	to man's master	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past			man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	must	man						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	collect	infinitive	man not said here	the ashes of the burnt mortar					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme
5	bring	infinitive	man not said here	ashes = ash				home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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