Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 109
But all this was only a dream, and vanished as soon as she awoke.
Who acts: this, dream, crow · What happens: be, vanish, awake · To what, where: dream
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, dream, crow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 vanished | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 dream | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 dream | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dream | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 dream | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dream | det |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vanished | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vanished | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 vanished | cc |
| 10 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 vanished | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 awoke | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 awoke | nsubj |
| 15 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 soon | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | all dream | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vanish | past | all dream | soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | awake | past | crow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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