Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 164
“I become fat, and it is that one wants to become!
Who acts: shadow, one, fat · What happens: become, want, be · To what, where: fat
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 (shadow, one, fat), 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 become | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 become | nsubj |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 become | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 become | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 become | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 become | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | cop |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 wants | mark |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 wants | nsubj |
| 11 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 become | mark |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 become | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become in a quote | present | the shadow = shadow | fat | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | one | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | fat | become 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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