Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 151

But I wrote direct to the persons themselves, and there was consternation in all the towns where I came.

Who acts: I, consternation · What happens: write, be, come

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, consternation), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 wrote	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wrote	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 persons	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 persons	det
7	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 direct	obl
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 persons	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 was	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrote	conj
13	consternation	consternation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 towns	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 towns	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 towns	det
17	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 consternation	nmod
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 came	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 towns	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	I		direct property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	consternation in all towns	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	I			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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