Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 148

I would not be a man if it were not now once accepted and regarded as something to be so!

Who acts: I, man · What happens: not be, not accept, regard, be · To what, where: man, world

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, man), 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 man	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 man	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 man	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 accepted	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 accepted	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 accepted	aux:pass
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 accepted	advmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 accepted	advmod
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 accepted	advmod
13	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 man	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 regarded	cc
15	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 accepted	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 something	case
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 regarded	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	20 so	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 so	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	17 something	acl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	would	I	a man			tree rules
2	not accept a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	a man not said here	world	now	once property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	regard	participle	a man not said here			as something	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as something=Value
4	is	to-infinitive	a man not said here			so property	tree rules

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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