Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 62
I was as happy as a king, and went to sleep on the box.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, go, sleep · To what, where: box
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happy | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 happy | advmod |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happy | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happy | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sleep | mark |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 box | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 box | det |
| 15 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sleep | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | as a king; happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | I not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | I not said here | the box | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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