The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 179
Every night, for half a year, have I dreamed, dear lady, that I should one day find you in this wood.
Who acts: I · What happens: dream, find · To what, where: dear lady, wood
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dreamed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 year | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 7 year | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 night | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dreamed | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 dreamed | nsubj |
| 11 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lady | punct |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lady | amod |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dreamed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 find | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 day | nummod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lady | acl:relcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 find | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | present · perfect | I | dear lady | night | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | should | I | dear lady | this wood | day | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme you=Attribute |
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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