Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 121

"Is it possible that I have been lying here in the street dreaming?" said he. "

Who acts: watchman, Street · What happens: be, lie, dream, say · To what, where: street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman, Street), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 possible	nsubj
4	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lying	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lying	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lying	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 lying	aux
9	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 said	advcl
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lying	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 street	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 street	det
13	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dreaming	obl
14	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 said	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 dreaming	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dreaming	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	watchman		possible property	tree rules
2	lie in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	Street	here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dream in a quote	gerund		the street		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: ask	past	Street			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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