Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 36

And little Tukey lay in his bed: it seemed to him as if he dreamed, and yet as if he were not dreaming; however, somebody was close beside him.

Who acts: little Tukey, it, Tukey, somebody · What happens: lie, seem, dream, not dream, be · To what, where: bed, Tukey

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Tukey, it, Tukey, somebody), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 lay	cc
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Tukey	amod
3	Tukey	Tukey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bed	nmod:poss
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 dreamed	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 dreamed	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dreamed	nsubj
16	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dreaming	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dreaming	cc
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 dreaming	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 dreaming	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 dreaming	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dreaming	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dreaming	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 dreaming	advmod
25	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 dreamed	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 close	punct
27	however	however	ADV	_	31 close	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 however	punct
29	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 close	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 close	cop
31	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	advcl
32	beside	beside	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 close	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	little Tukey		Tukey's bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	seem	past	it	Tukey				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	dream	past	Tukey					vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	not dream a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	Tukey			yet		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	somebody				beside Tukey; close, however property	tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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