Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 152

They were so afraid of me, and yet they were so excessively fond of me.

Who acts: newspapers · What happens: be

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 (newspapers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 afraid	advmod
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fond	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fond	cc
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 fond	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fond	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fond	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 fond	advmod
13	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	14 fond	advmod
14	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 afraid	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fond	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	newspapers = newspaper					of me; afraid property	tree rules
2	is	past	newspapers = newspaper				yet	of me; excessively, fond 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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