Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 60
But even in this sleep came a dream or something like it.
Who acts: sleep · What happens: come · To what, where: dream
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 sleep | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sleep | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sleep | det |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dream | det |
| 8 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 something | cc |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 dream | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 something | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this sleep | a dream | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dream=Theme |
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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