Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 144

I took my way--I tell it to you, but you will not put it in any book--I took my way to the cake woman--I hid myself behind her; the woman didn't think how much she concealed.

Who acts: I, you, woman · What happens: take, tell, not put, hide, not think, conceal · To what, where: way, you, book, cake woman, myself · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you, woman), 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	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 put	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 put	advmod
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 book	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 book	det
20	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 woman	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 woman	compound
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obl
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 hid	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 hid	nsubj
32	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
33	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 hid	obj
34	behind	behind	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hid	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 think	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 woman	det
38	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 think	nsubj
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 think	aux
40	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 think	advmod
41	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	parataxis
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 much	advmod
43	much	much	ADV	_	45 concealed	advmod
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 concealed	nsubj
45	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 think	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	I	my way				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	I	way	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient
3	not put	future	you	way		any book		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in book=Destination
4	take	past	I	my way	the cake woman			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to woman=Destination
5	hide	past	I	myself			behind woman	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent myself=Patient behind she=Location
6	not think speech: other	past · do-support	the woman					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	conceal	past	woman					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: 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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