Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 67
He was in an intermediate state between sleeping and waking; at variance with himself, with his company, with the country, and with the government.
Who acts: magazine, intermediate state · What happens: be, sleep, wake · To what, where: intermediate state
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magazine, intermediate state), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 state | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 state | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 state | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 state | det |
| 5 | intermediate | intermediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 state | amod |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 sleeping | case |
| 8 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 state | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 waking | cc |
| 10 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sleeping | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 variance | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 variance | case |
| 13 | variance | variance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 state | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 variance | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 company | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 company | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 company | nmod:poss |
| 19 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 variance | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 country | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 country | det |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 variance | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 government | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 government | cc |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 government | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 government | det |
| 28 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 variance | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | magazine | a intermediate state | at variance with magazine and magazine's company and the country and the government | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | a intermediate state not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wake | gerund | a intermediate state not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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