Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 103

It never occurred to him to think that he might lie there for years, he felt so comfortable.

Who acts: place, water · What happens: not occur, think, lie, feel · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, water), 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	3 occurred	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 occurred	advmod
3	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 occurred	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 occurred	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 lie	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lie	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lie	aux
11	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 think	ccomp
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lie	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lie	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 felt	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 felt	nsubj
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 occurred	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 comfortable	advmod
19	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 felt	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not occur	past	place	water				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	place not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	lie	might	water		there	year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feel	past	water				comfortable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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