Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 27
“Why, there is a pair of galoshes, as sure as I'm alive!” said the watchman, awaking from a gentle slumber.
Who acts: watchman · What happens: be, say, awake · To what, where: gentle slumber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman), 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 | _ | 12 sure | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 is | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sure | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 galoshes | case |
| 9 | galoshes | galosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pair | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 sure | advmod |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 alive | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 alive | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 alive | cop |
| 16 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | advcl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 alive | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 alive | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sure | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 watchman | det |
| 21 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 awaking | punct |
| 23 | awaking | awake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | advcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 slumber | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 slumber | det |
| 26 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 slumber | amod |
| 27 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 awaking | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the watchman = watchman | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the watchman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | awake | gerund | the watchman not said here | a gentle slumber | 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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