Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 143

I was in want of boots, of clothes, of the whole human varnish that makes a man perceptible.

Who acts: I, whole human varnish · What happens: be, make · To what, where: want, 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 (I, whole human varnish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:1948): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	4 want	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 want	case
4	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 boots	case
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 clothes	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 clothes	case
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 boots	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 varnish	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 varnish	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 varnish	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 varnish	amod
14	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 varnish	amod
15	varnish	varnish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boots	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 makes	nsubj
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 varnish	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 makes	obj
20	perceptible	perceptible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 makes	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			want		of boots and clothes and the whole human varnish	tree rules
2	make	present	the whole human varnish	a man				perceptible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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