Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 192

Some persons cannot bear to touch grey paper, or they become ill; others shiver in every limb if one rub a pane of glass with a nail: I have just such a feeling on hearing you say thou to me; I feel myself as if pressed to the earth in my first situation with you.

Who acts: persons, nature, others, I, feeling · What happens: not bear, touch, become, shiver, have, say · To what, where: grey paper, one rub, limb, thou, me, myself · 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 (persons, nature, others, I), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 persons	det
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bear	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bear	advmod
5	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 touch	mark
7	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bear	xcomp
8	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 paper	amod
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touch	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 become	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 become	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 become	nsubj
13	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	parataxis
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 become	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 shiver	punct
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shiver	nsubj
17	shiver	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 limb	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 limb	det
20	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shiver	obl
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 rub	mark
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 rub	nummod
23	rub	rub	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shiver	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pane	det
25	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rub	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 glass	case
27	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pane	nmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 nail	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 nail	det
30	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pane	nmod
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	parataxis
34	just	just	ADV	_	37 feeling	advmod
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 feeling	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 feeling	det
37	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 say	nsubj
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 hearing	case
39	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 feeling	nmod
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 say	nsubj
41	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 have	parataxis
42	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 say	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 say	obl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 feel	punct
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 feel	nsubj
47	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	conj
48	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 feel	obj
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 pressed	mark
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 pressed	mark
51	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 feel	advcl
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 earth	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 earth	det
54	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 pressed	obl
55	in	in	ADP	_	58 situation	case
56	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 situation	nmod:poss
57	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	58 situation	amod
58	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 pressed	obl
59	with	with	ADP	_	60 you	case
60	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 situation	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bear	can	some persons					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	touch	to-infinitive	some persons not said here	grey paper				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme paper=Co-Theme
3	become	present	nature				ill property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	shiver	present	others	one rub		every limb		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	present	I					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	present	such feeling on hearing	thou	me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Topic to i=Recipient
7	feel	present	I	myself				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
8	press	participle	I not said here			my first situation with you	to the earth	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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