Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 255

“Only imagine--yes, it is true, such a poor shadow-skull cannot bear much--only think, my shadow has become mad; he thinks that he is a man, and that I--now only think--that I am his shadow!”

Who acts: you, card, poor shadow skull, shadow, skull, my · What happens: imagine, be, not bear, think, become, shadow · To what, where: man, shadow · 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 (you, card, poor shadow skull, 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	_	3 imagine	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	3 imagine	advmod
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 true	punct
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 true	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yes	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 true	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 imagine	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bear	punct
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 skull	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 skull	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 skull	amod
14	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skull	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 shadow	punct
16	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bear	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 bear	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 bear	advmod
19	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 true	parataxis
20	much	much	ADV	_	19 bear	advmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 think	advmod
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 bear	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 shadow	nmod:poss
26	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 become	nsubj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
28	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 think	ccomp
29	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 become	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 thinks	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thinks	nsubj
32	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 man	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 man	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 man	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thinks	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 think	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 think	cc
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 think	mark
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 think	nsubj
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 I	punct
43	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 think	advmod
44	only	only	ADV	_	45 think	advmod
45	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 imagine	parataxis
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	51 shadow	punct
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 shadow	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 shadow	nsubj
49	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 shadow	cop
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 shadow	nmod:poss
51	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 think	parataxis
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	51 shadow	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	imagine in a quote	imperative	you not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is in a quote	present	card			true property	tree rules
3	not bear in a quote	can	such poor shadow skull				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive	such poor shadow skull not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	become in a quote	present · perfect	my shadow			mad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	think speech: other in a quote	present	skull				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present	skull	a man			tree rules
8	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive	such poor shadow skull = skull		now		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a in a quote	present	such poor shadow skull = skull	skull's shadow			tree rules
10	shadow in a quote		my				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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