Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 90
How is this?" she cried, "have I had a wicked dream?
Who acts: frog, I · What happens: be, cry, have · To what, where: this, wicked dream
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 this | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 this | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 cried | obl |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dream | det |
| 14 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dream | amod |
| 15 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | frog | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | frog not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | I | a wicked dream | 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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