English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 17

“Dreams go by contraries,” said Mr. Fox; “but tell us your dream, and your sweet voice will make the time pass till the happy hour comes.”

Who acts: Dreams, Mr. Fox, sweet voice, happy hour, your · What happens: go, say, tell, make, pass, come · To what, where: dream, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dreams, Mr. Fox, sweet voice, happy hour), 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 go	punct
2	Dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 contraries	case
5	contraries	contrary	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Fox	compound
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dream	nmod:poss
17	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 make	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 make	cc
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 voice	nmod:poss
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 voice	amod
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 make	aux
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pass	obj
27	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 make	xcomp
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 comes	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hour	det
30	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hour	amod
31	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 comes	nsubj
32	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 pass	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	Dreams				by contraries	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by contrary=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Mr. Fox					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		your dream	us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient dream=Topic
4	make in a quote	future	your sweet voice					tree rules
5	pass in a quote	infinitive	your sweet voice not said here			time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come in a quote	present	the happy hour					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dream in a quote		your					nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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