Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 88
Well," thought he, "this is charming; by day I sit in a police-office, amongst the dryest law papers, and at night I can dream that I am a lark, flying about in the gardens of Fredericksburg.
Who acts: this, I · What happens: think, charm, sit, dry, dream, be · To what, where: nature, police office, law papers, lark, gardens · 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 (this, 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 | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 charming | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 charming | punct |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 charming | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 charming | aux |
| 10 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sit | punct |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sit | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sit | nsubj |
| 15 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 office | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 office | det |
| 18 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 office | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 police | punct |
| 20 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sit | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dryest | punct |
| 22 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 24 dryest | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dryest | det |
| 24 | dryest | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sit | conj |
| 25 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 papers | compound |
| 26 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 dryest | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dream | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dream | cc |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 night | case |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dream | obl |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 dream | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 dream | aux |
| 33 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sit | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 lark | mark |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 lark | nsubj |
| 36 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 lark | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 lark | det |
| 38 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dream | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 flying | punct |
| 40 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 dream | advcl |
| 41 | about | about | ADV | _ | 40 flying | advmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 gardens | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 gardens | det |
| 44 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 flying | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Fredericksburg | case |
| 46 | Fredericksburg | Fredericksburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 gardens | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | nature | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | charm | present · progressive | this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | sit | present | I | a police office | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in office=Location | |||
| 4 | dry | present | I not said here | law papers | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient paper=Result | ||||
| 5 | dream | can | I | night | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | I | a lark | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fly | gerund | I not said here | the gardens of Fredericksburg | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=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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