Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 83

Well, now it is evident I must be dreaming; but I never had such a wild dream as this."

Who acts: it, I · What happens: be, dream, not have · To what, where: wild dream

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 (it, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 evident	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 evident	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 evident	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 evident	cop
6	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 dreaming	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dreaming	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 dreaming	aux
10	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 evident	ccomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 had	advmod
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 evident	conj
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 dream	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dream	det
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dream	amod
19	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 this	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 had	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 evident	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 evident	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		now	evident property	tree rules
2	dream	must · progressive	I				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	not have	past	I	such wild dream		as this	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=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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