Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 70
Do we not, in our dreams, show a wonderful dramatic talent? each of our acquaintance appears to us then in his own character, and with his own voice; no man could thus imitate them in his waking hours.
Who acts: we, each, man, our · What happens: show, appear, imitate, dream, acquaint · To what, where: wonderful dramatic talent, us, character
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, each, man, our), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 show | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 show | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 dreams | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dreams | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dreams | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 we | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 talent | det |
| 11 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 talent | amod |
| 12 | dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 talent | amod |
| 13 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 appears | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 acquaintance | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 18 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 each | nmod |
| 19 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 show | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 appears | obl |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 character | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 character | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 character | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 character | amod |
| 26 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appears | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 voice | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 voice | cc |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 voice | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 voice | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 voice | amod |
| 32 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 character | conj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 imitate | punct |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 man | det |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 imitate | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 imitate | aux |
| 37 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 38 imitate | advmod |
| 38 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 show | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 imitate | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 hours | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hours | nmod:poss |
| 42 | waking | waking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 hours | compound |
| 43 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 imitate | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | we | a wonderful dramatic talent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent talent=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | each | us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | imitate | could | no man | character | hour | thus property | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 4 | dream | our | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | acquaint | our | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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