Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 93
Like a man walking in his sleep, he found his way back to his dwelling.
Who acts: man, face · What happens: walk, find, sleep · To what, where: sleep, way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, face), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 man | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 found | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 dwelling | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 back | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | a man not said here | face's sleep | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | find | past | face | face's way | like a man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 3 | sleep | face | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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: «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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