The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 72
Perhaps, in his dreams, a man may see a creature which has what it has not got, and has not got what it has.
Who acts: man, creature, Petru · What happens: see, have, not get, dream · To what, where: creature, dreams
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, creature, Petru), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 10 see | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perhaps | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 dreams | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreams | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 creature | det |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 creature | acl:relcl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 has | obj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 got | advmod |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 got | cc |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 got | advmod |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 see | parataxis |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 got | obj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | may | a man | a creature | Petru's dreams | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | have | present | a creature | a creature | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not get | present · perfect | creature | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not get | present · perfect | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | have | present | creature | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | dream | Petru | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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