Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 238
“I have now become as happy and mighty as anyone can be; I will, therefore, do something particular for thee!
Who acts: shadow · What happens: become, do · To what, where: something
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), 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 | _ | 5 become | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 become | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 become | advmod |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 do | advcl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 happy | case |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 become | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mighty | cc |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 happy | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 be | mark |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 be | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 be | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mighty | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 will | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 will | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 will | punct |
| 18 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 therefore | punct |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 something | amod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 thee | case |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 particular | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become in a quote | present · perfect | the shadow = shadow | now | happy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | something | therefore property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
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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