--- title: And while he slept he dreamt that there appeared before him a beauti… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And while he slept he dreamt that there appeared before him a beautiful lady, dressed in a robe of cloth of gold, who said to him: ‘Go to the castle of Beloeil, and there you shall marry a princess.’ Who acts: Michael, gold, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, gold, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:2:9 # text = And while he slept he dreamt that there appeared before him a beautiful lady, dressed in a robe of cloth of gold, who said to him: ‘Go to the castle of Beloeil, and there you shall marry a princess.’ 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 while while SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 dreamt dreamt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 9 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 robe robe NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Beloeil Beloeil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | past | Michael | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **dreamt** | past | Michael | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **appear** | past | Michael *not said here* | a beautiful lady | | there | before Michael | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lady=Theme | | 4 | **dress** | participle | | a beautiful lady *not said here* | | a robe of cloth of gold | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | gold | | Michael | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | Michael *not said here* | | | the castle of Beloeil | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **marry** | shall | you | a princess | | there | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/10/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/)