The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 68

Meantime the golden lad dreamt that he was out hunting and was giving chase to a noble stag, and when he woke he said to his bride: ‘I must go off and hunt.’

Who acts: Meantime, I · What happens: dreamt, be, give, wake, say, go off · To what, where: hunting, chase, noble stag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime, I), 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	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dreamt	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lad	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lad	amod
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dreamt	nsubj
5	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 hunting	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hunting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hunting	cop
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 was	compound:prt
10	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dreamt	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 giving	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 giving	aux
13	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dreamt	conj
14	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 giving	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 stag	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stag	det
17	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stag	amod
18	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 giving	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 woke	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 woke	nsubj
23	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	advcl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dreamt	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 bride	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bride	nmod:poss
28	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 go	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 go	aux
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 go	compound:prt
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hunt	cc
36	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 go	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	dreamt	past	Meantime				tree rules
2	is a	past	Meantime	hunting			tree rules
3	give	past · progressive	Meantime not said here	chase	a noble stag		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chase=Theme to stag=Recipient
4	wake	past	Meantime				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	Meantime			to Meantime's bride	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to bride=Experiencer clause=Topic
6	go off	must	I				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
7	hunt	present	I not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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