Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 52
It was only a dream, and yet I am just as tired as if I really had done everything.’
Who acts: room, I · What happens: be, do · To what, where: dream, everything
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dream | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dream | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 dream | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dream | det |
| 5 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tired | cc |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 tired | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tired | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tired | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 tired | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 tired | advmod |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dream | parataxis |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 done | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 done | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 done | advmod |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 tired | advcl |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 done | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dream | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | room | a dream | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | yet | tired property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | I | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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