Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 87
“As if I lay in Soroe,” said Tuk, awaking.
Who acts: Tuk · What happens: lay, say, awake · To what, where: Soroe · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tuk), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 lay | mark |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 lay | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Soroe | case |
| 7 | Soroe | Soroe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tuk | Tuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 awaking | punct |
| 13 | awaking | awake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | present | Tuk | Soroe | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in soroe=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tuk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | awake | gerund | Tuk not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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