Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 74
I have a clear perception of everything as if I were wide awake.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, be, perceive · To what, where: clear perception, everything
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 perception | det |
| 4 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 perception | amod |
| 5 | perception | perception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 everything | case |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 perception | nmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 awake | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 awake | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 awake | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 awake | cop |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 13 awake | advmod |
| 13 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 have | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a clear perception of everything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perception=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | awake, wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | perceive | everything | nom perception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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