Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 63
Next morning--correctly speaking, it was noon, for I slept remarkably late that day--I found myself still sitting there, in happy consciousness that my former wish had been a foolish one.
Who acts: box, I, myself, happy consciousness, my · What happens: speak, be, sleep, find, sit, wish · To what, where: noon, myself, happy consciousness, foolish one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (box, I, myself, happy consciousness), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speaking | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaking | punct |
| 4 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 5 speaking | advmod |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 noon | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 noon | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 noon | cop |
| 9 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speaking | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slept | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 slept | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 slept | nsubj |
| 13 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speaking | conj |
| 14 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | _ | 15 late | advmod |
| 15 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 slept | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speaking | conj |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 sitting | advmod |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 found | xcomp |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 sitting | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 consciousness | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 consciousness | case |
| 27 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 consciousness | amod |
| 28 | consciousness | consciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitting | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 one | nsubj |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wish | nmod:poss |
| 31 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wish | amod |
| 32 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 one | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 one | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 one | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 one | det |
| 36 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 one | amod |
| 37 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 consciousness | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | morning | correctly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | box | noon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | I | day | late property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | find | past | I | myself | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | myself not said here | happy consciousness; there | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in consciousness=Location | |||
| 6 | is a | past · perfect | happy consciousness | a foolish one | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wish | my | nom wish «feeling 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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