Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 71

As the clerk thought of all these things, and became conscious of the great change in his own feelings, he smiled, and said to himself, "I must be asleep and dreaming; and yet, if so, how wonderful for a dream to be so natural and real, and to know at the same time too that it is but a dream.

Who acts: strength, I, dream · What happens: think, become, smile, say, be, dream · To what, where: strength, dream · 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 (strength, I, dream), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 clerk	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clerk	det
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 things	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 things	det:predet
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 things	det
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 became	cc
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
12	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 change	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 change	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 change	amod
16	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 conscious	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 feelings	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feelings	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feelings	amod
20	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 change	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 smiled	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 smiled	nsubj
23	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 became	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 smiled	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 said	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 asleep	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 asleep	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 asleep	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 asleep	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 asleep	cop
34	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	ccomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 dreaming	cc
36	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 asleep	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 wonderful	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 wonderful	cc
39	yet	yet	ADV	_	45 wonderful	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 yet	punct
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 so	mark
42	so	so	ADV	_	45 wonderful	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 wonderful	punct
44	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	45 wonderful	advmod
45	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	parataxis
46	for	for	ADP	_	48 dream	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 dream	det
48	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wonderful	obl
49	to	to	PART	_	52 natural	mark
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 natural	cop
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 natural	advmod
52	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 wonderful	advcl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 real	cc
54	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 natural	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 know	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 know	cc
57	to	to	PART	_	58 know	mark
58	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 wonderful	parataxis
59	at	at	ADP	_	62 time	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 time	det
61	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 time	amod
62	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 know	obl
63	too	too	ADV	_	58 know	advmod
64	that	that	SCONJ	_	69 dream	mark
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 dream	nsubj
66	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 dream	cop
67	but	but	CCONJ	_	69 dream	cc
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 dream	det
69	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 know	advcl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past					as the clerk; of all things	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	become	past					conscious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	smile	past	strength					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	strength not said here		strength			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
5	is in a quote	must	I				asleep property	tree rules
6	dream in a quote	gerund	I not said here					vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	to-infinitive					natural property	tree rules
8	be in a quote							tree rules
9	know in a quote	to-infinitive				time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	is a in a quote	present	dream	a dream				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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