Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 9

Then he dreamed a strange dream; he thought he saw the sun shining upon him, and his father alive and well, and even heard him laughing as he used to do when he was very happy.

Who acts: John, sun · What happens: dream, think, see, shine, hear, laugh · To what, where: strange dream, sun, John · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, sun), 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 dreamed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dreamed	nsubj
3	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dream	det
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dream	amod
6	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dreamed	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dreamed	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 sun	acl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shining	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 alive	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 alive	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 alive	nsubj
21	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saw	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 well	cc
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 alive	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 heard	cc
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 heard	advmod
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	obj
29	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 heard	xcomp
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 used	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 used	nsubj
32	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 laughing	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 used	xcomp
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 happy	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 happy	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 happy	cop
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 happy	advmod
39	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 do	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past	John	a strange dream	then		vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic
2	think speech: other	past	John				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	see	past	John	the sun			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus
4	shine	gerund	the sun not said here			upon John	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
5	hear	past	John not said here	John			tree rules
6	laugh	gerund	John not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	use	past	John				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	do	to-infinitive	John not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	John			happy property	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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