Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 109

Then he had a dream; for, to one with his faculties, dreaming was no difficulty.

Who acts: gift, difficulty · What happens: have, dream, be · To what, where: dream, difficulty

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gift, difficulty), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dream	det
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 one	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 had	parataxis
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 faculties	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 faculties	nmod:poss
13	faculties	faculty	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dreaming	punct
15	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 difficulty	acl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 difficulty	cop
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 difficulty	det
18	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	gift	a dream	then	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
2	dream	gerund	no difficulty not said here			vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		no difficulty		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: «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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