Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 81

“That was an unpleasant dream,” said he; “but 'twas droll enough altogether.

Who acts: That, unpleasant dream, twas · What happens: be, say, droll · To what, where: unpleasant dream · 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 (That, unpleasant dream, twas), 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	_	6 dream	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 dream	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dream	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dream	det
5	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dream	amod
6	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dream	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 dream	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 droll	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 droll	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 twas	cc
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 twas	punct
15	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 droll	nsubj
16	droll	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 droll	advmod
18	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	16 droll	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	That	a unpleasant dream		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a unpleasant dream			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	droll in a quote	present	twas		altogether, enough 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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