--- title: After a while I found myself lying on my bed in my room; but how I g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: After a while I found myself lying on my bed in my room; but how I got there, or how I got away at all from the Polytechnic professor, he may perhaps know, I don't. Who acts: I, myself, professor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, myself, professor), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:152:55 # text = After a while I found myself lying on my bed in my room; but how I got there, or how I got away at all from the Polytechnic professor, he may perhaps know, I don't. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 obl _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Polytechnic Polytechnic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 professor professor NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | I | myself | | | while | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | myself *not said here* | | | my bed | | in my room | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | | 3 | **get** | past | I | | | there | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **get away** | past | I | | | all | | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** | may | professor | | | | | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **do** | present | I | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/56/) - ↑ back to [The Puppet-show Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/)