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title: I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was a wood full of orang… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was a wood full of orange trees, and that in one of the oranges I should find a beautiful princess who is to be my wife. Who acts: I, wood, beautiful princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tre
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 47

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I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was a wood full of orange trees, and that in one of the oranges I should find a beautiful princess who is to be my wife.

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**Who acts:** I, wood, beautiful princess · **What happens:** dream, be, find · **To what, where:** land, beautiful princess, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wood, beautiful princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg540:40:47
# text = I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was a wood full of orange trees, and that in one of the oranges I should find a beautiful princess who is to be my wife.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | past | a wood |  |  | the land of the sun; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 3 | **find** | should | I | a beautiful princess |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a beautiful princess | my wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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