Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 88

“Now then, there is no doubt that I am dreaming; but I never before was aware of such mad freaks as these.”

Who acts: botanist · What happens: dream, be · To what, where: doubt

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 (botanist), 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	_	19 aware	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 then	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 is	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 aware	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 doubt	det
8	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 dreaming	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 dreaming	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dreaming	aux
12	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 doubt	acl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 aware	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 aware	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 aware	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 before	advmod
17	before	before	ADV	_	19 aware	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 aware	cop
19	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 freaks	case
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 freaks	amod
22	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 freaks	amod
23	freaks	freak	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 aware	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 these	case
25	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 freaks	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 aware	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 aware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream in a quote	present · progressive	botanist	no doubt not said here					vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	botanist					of such mad freaks as these; aware, before 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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