Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 29

He dreamed that he was a real street boy, that he possessed four real pennies, and that he had bought the gingerbread lady, and ate her up.

Who acts: man · What happens: dream, be, possess, buy, eat up · To what, where: real street boy, four real pennies, gingerbread lady, heart

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dreamed	nsubj
2	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 boy	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 boy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 boy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	compound
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dreamed	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 possessed	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 possessed	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 possessed	nsubj
13	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dreamed	parataxis
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pennies	nummod
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pennies	amod
16	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 possessed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bought	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 bought	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bought	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bought	aux
22	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 possessed	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lady	det
24	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lady	compound
25	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bought	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ate	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ate	cc
28	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dreamed	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ate	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 ate	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	dream	past	man		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	man	a real street boy	tree rules
3	possess	past	man	four real pennies	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot penny=Theme
4	buy	past · perfect	man	the gingerbread lady	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme
5	eat up	past	man not said here	heart	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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