The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 72
Wonderful dreams came to him during his sleep, where the bars of gold continually hovered before his eyes.
Who acts: Wonderful dreams, bars, friend · What happens: come, hover, sleep · To what, where: friend, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wonderful dreams, bars, friend), 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 | Wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dreams | amod |
| 2 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | during | during | ADP | _ | 8 sleep | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hovered | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 hovered | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bars | det |
| 12 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hovered | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bars | nmod |
| 15 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 16 hovered | advmod |
| 16 | hovered | hover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hovered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Wonderful dreams | friend | during friend's sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hover | past | the bars of gold | friend's eyes | continually property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location | |||
| 3 | sleep | friend | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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