Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 85

Indeed she was on the point of falling over in reality with the chair on which she sat; but she was so startled and alarmed that she could not remember what she had dreamed, only that it was something very dreadful.

Who acts: Anne, point, sleeve · What happens: be, fall over, sit, startle, alarm, not remember · To what, where: point, reality, chair, Anne, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne, point, sleeve), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 point	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 point	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 point	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 point	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 point	det
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 falling	mark
8	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 point	acl
9	over	over	ADV	_	8 falling	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 reality	case
11	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falling	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 chair	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chair	det
14	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falling	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sat	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 chair	acl:relcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 startled	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 startled	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 startled	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 startled	aux:pass
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 startled	advmod
24	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 point	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 alarmed	cc
26	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 startled	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 remember	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 remember	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 remember	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 remember	advmod
31	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 alarmed	advcl
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 dreamed	obj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 dreamed	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dreamed	aux
35	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 remember	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 something	punct
37	only	only	ADV	_	41 something	advmod
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 something	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 something	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 something	cop
41	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 dreamed	conj
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 dreadful	advmod
43	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 something	amod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 point	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Anne		the point	indeed property	tree rules
2	fall over	gerund	the point not said here		reality	with the chair; over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in reality=Location
3	sit	past	Anne		the chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
4	startle	past · passive		Anne			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	alarm	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	not remember	could	Anne				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	dream	past · perfect	Anne				vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
8	is a	past	sleeve	something			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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