The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 36

At length one night her mother appeared to her in a dream, and bade her marry the young man.

Who acts: mother · What happens: appear, bade, marry · To what, where: girl, length, young man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 night	nummod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	nmod:unmarked
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	nsubj
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 appeared	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dream	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dream	det
12	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bade	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bade	cc
15	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 appeared	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bade	obj
17	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bade	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marry	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	girl's mother		girl	length one night	in a dream	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	bade	past	girl's mother not said here	girl				tree rules
3	marry	infinitive	girl's mother not said here	the young man				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

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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