Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 104
“'Tis well that I'm dreaming,” said the clerk, “or I really should get angry.
Who acts: clerk · What happens: dream, say, get · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 “ | conj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 Tis | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 dreaming | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 dreaming | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dreaming | aux |
| 8 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dreaming | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dreaming | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clerk | det |
| 13 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 21 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 get | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream in a quote | present · progressive | the clerk = clerk | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the clerk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | should | the clerk = clerk | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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