Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 162

“I write about the true, and the good, and the beautiful, but no one cares to hear such things; I am quite desperate, for I take it so much to heart!”

Who acts: learned man, one · What happens: write, care, hear, be, take · To what, where: such things, coin

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 (learned man, one), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 write	nsubj
3	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 true	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 true	det
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 write	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 good	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 good	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 write	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beautiful	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 beautiful	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beautiful	det
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 good	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cares	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 cares	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cares	nsubj
19	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 write	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hear	mark
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cares	xcomp
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hear	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 desperate	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 desperate	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 desperate	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 desperate	advmod
28	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 write	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 take	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 take	nsubj
32	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 write	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 take	obj
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADV	_	32 take	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 heart	mark
37	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	advcl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write in a quote	present	the learned man = man			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	care in a quote	present	no one			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hear in a quote	to-infinitive	no one not said here	such things		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	present	the learned man = man		desperate property	tree rules
5	take in a quote	present	the learned man = man	coin		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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