Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 138
Had you come over there, you would not have been a man; but I became so!
Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, come over, not be, become · To what, where: man
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 (you, 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Had | parataxis |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 man | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 man | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 man | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 man | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 became | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 became | nsubj |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Had | parataxis |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 became | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | come over | present | you | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is a | would · perfect | you | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | past | I | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «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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