Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 96
It is well for me that I am dreaming," he thought; "otherwise I should become really angry.
Who acts: eightpence, I, boy · What happens: be, dream, think, become · 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 (eightpence, I, boy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 me | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 me | cop |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 me | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 dreaming | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 dreaming | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dreaming | aux |
| 9 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 me | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dreaming | parataxis |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 become | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 become | punct |
| 16 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 19 become | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 become | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 become | aux |
| 19 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 angry | advmod |
| 21 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 become | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | eightpence | for me; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dream | present · progressive | I | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | boy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become | should | I | angry, otherwise property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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