The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 134

‘And at last I dreamt that I was walking over a bridge made of a whale’s back, and the living bridge spoke to me and said: “Here have I been stretched out these three years, and men and horses have trampled my back down into my ribs.

Who acts: I, living bridge, men · What happens: dreamt, walk, make, speak, say, stretch out · To what, where: last, bridge, me, back, ribs · 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, living bridge, men), 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	_	6 dreamt	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 dreamt	cc
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dreamt	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dreamt	nsubj
6	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 walking	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 walking	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 walking	aux
10	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dreamt	advcl
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 bridge	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bridge	det
13	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walking	obl
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bridge	acl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 whale	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 whale	det
17	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl
18	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 walking	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 ’s	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spoke	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spoke	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bridge	det
23	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bridge	compound
24	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spoke	nsubj
25	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dreamt	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 spoke	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dreamt	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 stretched	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 stretched	punct
32	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 have	advmod
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 stretched	aux
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 stretched	aux:pass
36	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 said	ccomp
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 stretched	compound:prt
38	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	40 years	det
39	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 years	nummod
40	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stretched	obl:unmarked
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 trampled	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 trampled	cc
43	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 trampled	nsubj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 horses	cc
45	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 men	conj
46	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 trampled	aux
47	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 stretched	conj
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 back	nmod:poss
49	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 trampled	obj
50	down	down	ADV	_	47 trampled	advmod
51	into	into	ADP	_	53 ribs	case
52	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 ribs	nmod:poss
53	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 trampled	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dreamt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dreamt	past	I			last			tree rules
2	walk	past · progressive	I			a bridge			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory
3	make	participle		a bridge not said here				of a whale	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	speak speech: other	past	the living bridge		me				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	I not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	stretch out in a quote	present · perfect · passive					year		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»
7	trample down in a quote	present · perfect	men and horses	my back		my ribs		down property	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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