Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 113

I should have been completely killed if I had gone over to the maiden; but I was circumspect, I took time to think, and that one must always do.”

Who acts: I, one · What happens: kill, go over, be, take, think, do · To what, where: I, circumspect

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 killed	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 killed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 killed	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 killed	aux:pass
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	6 killed	advmod
6	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 gone	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 killed	advcl
11	over	over	ADV	_	10 gone	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 maiden	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 maiden	det
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 circumspect	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 circumspect	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 circumspect	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 circumspect	cop
19	circumspect	circumspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 killed	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 circumspect	parataxis
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 think	mark
25	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 time	acl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 do	cc
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 do	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 do	advmod
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 took	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 circumspect	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 circumspect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	kill	should · perfect · passive		I		completely property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	go over a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I			to the maiden; over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	I	circumspect			tree rules
4	take	past	I		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	must	that one			always property	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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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