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title: They dreamt that a girl all dressed in red had come to them and said… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They dreamt that a girl all dressed in red had come to them and said: ‘If you wish that your son should really become the Sun-Hero in deed and not only in name, let him go out into the world and search for the Tree of the Sun, and when he has found it, let him pluck a golden apple from it and bring 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 7

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They dreamt that a girl all dressed in red had come to them and said: ‘If you wish that your son should really become the Sun-Hero in deed and not only in name, let him go out into the world and search for the Tree of the Sun, and when he has found it, let him pluck a golden apple from it and bring it home.’

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**Who acts:** parents, girl, you, son · **What happens:** dreamt, dress, come, say, wish, become · **To what, where:** girl, red, parents, son, world, hero · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, girl, you, son), 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:pg640:38:7
# text = They dreamt that a girl all dressed in red had come to them and said: ‘If you wish that your son should really become the Sun-Hero in deed and not only in name, let him go out into the world and search for the Tree of the Sun, and when he has found it, let him pluck a golden apple from it and bring it home.’
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	out	out	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	59	advmod	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
62	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	59	parataxis	_	_
63	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	_
64	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	xcomp	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
66	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	_
68	from	from	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obl	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
71	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	62	conj	_	_
72	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	71	obj	_	_
73	home	home	ADV	RB	_	71	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dreamt** | past | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  | a girl *not said here* |  | red |  | all *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | a girl |  | parents *= parent* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | parents *= parent* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **become** | should | your son |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **go out** | infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  | the world |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **search** | infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Tree of the Sun | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for tree=Theme |
| 10 | **find** | present · perfect | son | hero |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 11 | **let** | infinitive |  | son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **pluck** | infinitive | son *not said here* | a golden apple |  | hero |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from it=Source |
| 13 | **bring** | infinitive |  | hero |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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