The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 125

‘I dreamt I was walking on a wide road, and an oak tree said to me: “Ask the king this: Rotten at the roots, half dead, and yet green stands the old oak.

Who acts: I, oak tree · What happens: dreamt, walk, say, ask, stand · To what, where: wide road, me, this, king, roots, old oak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, oak tree), 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	_	3 dreamt	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dreamt	nsubj
3	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 walking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walking	aux
6	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dreamt	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 road	det
9	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 road	amod
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
14	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dreamt	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Ask	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Ask	punct
21	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Ask	obj
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 Ask	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Rotten	punct
26	Rotten	Rotten	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Ask	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 roots	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 roots	det
29	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Ask	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dead	punct
31	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	32 dead	advmod
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Ask	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stands	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stands	cc
35	yet	yet	ADV	_	36 green	advmod
36	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 stands	amod
37	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dreamt	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 oak	det
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 oak	amod
40	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stands	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dreamt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	dreamt	past	I					tree rules
2	walk	past · progressive	I			a wide road		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	a oak tree		me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive		this	the king	the roots	Rotten obl	tree rules
5	stand in a quote	present	a oak tree = tree not said here	the old oak				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oak=Stimulus

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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