Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 58
When I awoke, I found myself in a prison; but the room was not worse than our own in the hut.
Who acts: I, room · What happens: awake, find, not be · To what, where: myself, prison, hut
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, room), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 prison | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 prison | det |
| 10 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 worse | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 worse | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worse | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worse | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 worse | advmod |
| 17 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 found | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 own | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 worse | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hut | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hut | det |
| 23 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worse | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | I | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | I | myself | a prison | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | |||
| 3 | not is | past | the room | the hut | than our own; bad 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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