English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 18

“I dreamed,” said Lady Mary, “that I went yestermorn to your castle, and I found it in the woods, with high walls, and a deep moat, and over the gateway was written:

Who acts: Lady Mary · What happens: dream, say, go, find, write · To what, where: yestermorn, woods, gateway · 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 (Lady Mary), 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 dreamed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dreamed	nsubj
3	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dreamed	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 dreamed	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mary	compound
8	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	yestermorn	yestermorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 castle	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 castle	nmod:poss
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 woods	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woods	det
25	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 found	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 walls	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 walls	case
28	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 walls	amod
29	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 found	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 moat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 moat	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 moat	det
33	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 moat	amod
34	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 written	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 written	cc
37	over	over	ADP	_	39 gateway	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 gateway	det
39	gateway	gateway	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 written	obl
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 written	aux:pass
41	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dream in a quote	past	Lady Mary = mary				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Lady Mary				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	past	Lady Mary = mary	yestermorn		to your castle	tree rules
4	find in a quote	past	Lady Mary = mary	yestermorn	the woods	with high walls; a deep moat obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	write in a quote	past · passive			the gateway		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»

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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