Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 149

I saw the most unimaginable things with the women, with the men, with parents, and with the sweet, matchless children; I saw,” said the shadow, “what no human being must know, but what they would all so willingly know--what is bad in their neighbor.

Who acts: I, shadow, parents · What happens: see, say, be, know · To what, where: unimaginable things, neighbor · 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, shadow, parents), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 things	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 unimaginable	advmod
5	unimaginable	unimaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 women	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 women	det
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 things	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 men	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 men	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 things	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 parents	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 parents	case
16	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 men	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 children	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 children	cc
19	with	with	ADP	_	24 children	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 children	det
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sweet	punct
23	matchless	matchless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 shadow	det
32	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 what	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 what	punct
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 said	parataxis
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 know	det
37	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 know	advmod
38	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 know	cop
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 know	aux
40	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 what	acl:relcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 know	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 know	cc
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	49 know	obj
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 know	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 know	aux
46	all	all	ADV	_	47 so	advmod
47	so	so	ADV	_	49 know	advmod
48	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	49 know	advmod
49	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	parataxis
50	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 bad	punct
51	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 bad	nsubj
52	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 bad	cop
53	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 know	conj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 neighbor	case
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 neighbor	nmod:poss
56	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 bad	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	the unimaginable things		with the women; with the sweet matchless children	tree rules
2	see	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the shadow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	must · gerund				know property	tree rules
5	know	would	parents = parent			willingly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	is	present			parents's neighbor	bad 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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