--- title: Now after the days of mourning were at an end, the wife was sleeping… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now after the days of mourning were at an end, the wife was sleeping at her husband’s side, and in her sleep she dreamed that she was once more in her father’s house, and when she woke up it was no dream. Who acts: days, wife, mourning. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/287/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/) / 287 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 287 Now after the days of mourning were at an end, the wife was sleeping at her husband’s side, and in her sleep she dreamed that she was once more in her father’s house, and when she woke up it was no dream. **Who acts:** days, wife, mourning · **What happens:** be, sleep, dream, wake up · **To what, where:** side, sleep, house, dream · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, wife, mourning), 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:pg641:15:287 # text = Now after the days of mourning were at an end, the wife was sleeping at her husband’s side, and in her sleep she dreamed that she was once more in her father’s house, and when she woke up it was no dream. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 mourning mourning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’s 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 31 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 32 advmod _ _ 32 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 40 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 advcl _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 46 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 47 det _ _ 47 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the days of mourning | | | | after a end | | tree rules | | 2 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the wife | | | wife's husband's side | now | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dream** | past | wife | | | wife's sleep | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | wife | | | wife's father's house and no dream | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wake up** | past | wife | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | past | mourning | no dream | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sleep** | | wife | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 286](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/286/) - next →: [sentence 288](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/288/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)