--- title: How is this?" she cried, "have I had a wicked dream? — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: How is this?" she cried, "have I had a wicked dream? Who acts: frog, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/90/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/) / 90 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:83:90 # text = How is this?" she cried, "have I had a wicked dream? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/91/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/)