Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 92

“It is really pleasant enough,” said he: “the whole day long I sit in the office amid the driest law-papers, and at night I fly in my dream as a lark in the gardens of Fredericksburg; one might really write a very pretty comedy upon it.”

Who acts: poetry, doubt, I, one, my · What happens: be, say, sit, fly, write, dream · To what, where: driest law papers, office amid, dream, pretty comedy · 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 (poetry, doubt, I, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 pleasant	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pleasant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pleasant	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 pleasant	advmod
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 pleasant	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pleasant	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 pleasant	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sit	nsubj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 sit	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sit	obl:unmarked
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 day	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sit	nsubj
18	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 amid	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 amid	det
21	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 amid	compound
22	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sit	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 papers	det
24	driest	dry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 papers	amod
25	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 papers	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 law	punct
27	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sit	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fly	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fly	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 night	case
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fly	obl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 fly	nsubj
33	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sit	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 dream	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 dream	nmod:poss
36	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fly	obl
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 lark	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 lark	det
39	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fly	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 gardens	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 gardens	det
42	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lark	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Fredericksburg	case
44	Fredericksburg	Fredericksburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 gardens	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 write	punct
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 write	nsubj
47	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 write	aux
48	really	really	ADV	_	49 write	advmod
49	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sit	conj
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 comedy	det
51	very	very	ADV	_	52 pretty	advmod
52	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 comedy	amod
53	comedy	comedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 write	obj
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 write	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	poetry				enough, pleasant property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit in a quote	present	doubt	the driest law papers	the office amid	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in amid=Location
4	fly in a quote	present	I		my dream	night	as a lark in the gardens of Fredericksburg	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in dream=Location
5	write in a quote	might	one	a pretty comedy			upon poetry	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comedy=Theme
6	dream in a quote		my					nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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