Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 82

I fancied that I was the lieutenant over there: and yet the thing was not very much to my taste after all.

Who acts: I, thing · What happens: fancy, be · To what, where: lieutenant

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 (I, thing), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 lieutenant	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 lieutenant	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lieutenant	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lieutenant	det
7	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancied	ccomp
8	over	over	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lieutenant	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 taste	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 taste	cc
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 taste	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taste	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 taste	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 much	advmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	21 taste	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 taste	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 taste	nmod:poss
21	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancied	obl
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 taste	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	I					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	I	the lieutenant	there			tree rules
3	is	past	the thing			after all; yet	to my taste	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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