The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 129

‘Then I dreamt I came to a river, and the old ferryman said to me: “For thirty year’s the ferryman has rowed to and fro.

Who acts: I, old ferryman · What happens: dreamt, come, say, row, fro · To what, where: river, me, ferryman · 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, old ferryman), 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	_	4 dreamt	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dreamt	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dreamt	nsubj
4	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dreamt	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ferryman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ferryman	amod
14	ferryman	ferryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dreamt	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 ’s	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 ’s	punct
20	For	for	ADP	_	22 year	case
21	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 year	nummod
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’s	obl
23	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 rowed	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ferryman	det
25	ferryman	ferryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rowed	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 rowed	aux
27	rowed	row	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	27 rowed	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fro	cc
30	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 rowed	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dreamt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	dreamt	past	I				then	tree rules
2	come	past	I			a river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the old ferryman		me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	row in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the ferryman				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	fro in a quote	infinitive						tree rules

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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