Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 78
While he thought of this and of the whole metamorphosis he had undergone, he smiled and said, “I sleep and dream; but it is wonderful how one can dream so naturally, and know besides so exactly that it is but a dream.
Who acts: Clerk, size, one · What happens: think, undergo, smile, say, sleep, dream · To what, where: whole metamorphosis, dream · 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, size, one), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 thought | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 smiled | cc |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 metamorphosis | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 metamorphosis | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 metamorphosis | amod |
| 10 | metamorphosis | metamorphosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smiled | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 undergone | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 undergone | aux |
| 13 | undergone | undergo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 metamorphosis | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 metamorphosis | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 smiled | nsubj |
| 16 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 smiled | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sleep | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sleep | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 sleep | nsubj |
| 22 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dream | cc |
| 24 | dream | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sleep | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 wonderful | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 wonderful | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 wonderful | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 wonderful | cop |
| 29 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 besides | csubj |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 dream | advmod |
| 31 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 dream | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 dream | aux |
| 33 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 wonderful | parataxis |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 naturally | advmod |
| 35 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 33 dream | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 know | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 know | cc |
| 38 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 dream | parataxis |
| 39 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 47 dream | advmod |
| 41 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 47 dream | advmod |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 dream | mark |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 dream | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 dream | cop |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 dream | cc |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 dream | det |
| 47 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 besides | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Clerk | of this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | undergo | past · perfect | Clerk | the whole metamorphosis not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smile | past | Clerk | of the whole metamorphosis | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Clerk not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sleep in a quote | present | Clerk | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | dream in a quote | present | Clerk not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | size | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | dream in a quote | can | one | naturally property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | know in a quote | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 10 | beside in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 11 | is a in a quote | present | size | a dream | exactly 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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