The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 31
At last he dreamt one night that he had found a blood-red flower, which had in its centre a beautiful large pearl.
Who acts: Joringel, blood red flower · What happens: dreamt, find, have · To what, where: last, blood red flower, beautiful large pearl, centre
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel, blood red flower), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dreamt | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dreamt | nsubj |
| 4 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 night | nummod |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dreamt | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 found | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 dreamt | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flower | det |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flower | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 blood | punct |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flower | amod |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 flower | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 centre | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 centre | nmod:poss |
| 21 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pearl | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pearl | amod |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pearl | amod |
| 25 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreamt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dreamt | past | Joringel | last | night | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | past · perfect | Joringel | a blood red flower | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a blood red flower | a beautiful large pearl | last's centre | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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