Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 149

Heaven preserve us!" said he; "How did I get up here and fall asleep in this way?

Who acts: Heaven, I · What happens: preserve, say, get up, fall · To what, where: us, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, I), 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	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 preserve	nsubj
2	preserve	preserve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 preserve	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 preserve	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 preserve	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 preserve	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 get	advmod
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 preserve	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 get	compound:prt
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 get	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fall	cc
17	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 get	conj
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fall	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fall	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 preserve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	preserve	infinitive	Heaven	us			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Heaven				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	get up	past · do-support	I		here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	fall	infinitive	I not said here		this way	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location

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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