The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 95

‘Well, what odd dreams one does have to be sure!’ he said to himself.

Who acts: odd, smell · What happens: dream, have, be, say · To what, where: one, smell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (odd, smell), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dreams	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 dreams	obj
5	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dreams	nsubj
6	dreams	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	advcl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dreams	obj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	12 sure	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sure	cop
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 have	xcomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 said	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	dream	present	odd	one			tree rules
2	have	present · do-support					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive				sure property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	smell		smell		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic

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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