Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 260

“He is very unfortunate; it would be a real work of charity to deliver him from the little life he has, and, when I think properly over the matter, I am of opinion that it will be necessary to do away with him in all stillness!”

Who acts: skull, consternation, Poor shadow · What happens: be, deliver, have, think, do away · To what, where: real work, skull, little life, matter, stillness · 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 (skull, consternation, Poor 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 unfortunate	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unfortunate	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unfortunate	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 unfortunate	advmod
5	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 opinion	csubj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 work	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 work	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 work	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 work	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 work	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 work	amod
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unfortunate	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 charity	case
14	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 deliver	mark
16	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 work	acl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 deliver	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 life	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 life	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 life	amod
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deliver	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 life	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 think	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 think	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 think	nsubj
29	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unfortunate	conj
30	properly	properly	ADV	_	29 think	advmod
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 matter	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 matter	det
33	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 think	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 am	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 am	nsubj
36	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 opinion	cop
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 opinion	case
38	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 necessary	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 necessary	expl
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 necessary	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 necessary	cop
43	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 opinion	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 do	mark
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 necessary	csubj
46	away	away	ADV	_	45 do	advmod
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 do	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 stillness	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 stillness	det
51	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 do	obl
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 opinion	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 opinion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	skull			unfortunate property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	would	consternation	a real work		of charity	tree rules
3	deliver in a quote	to-infinitive	skull not said here	skull	the little life		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from life=Initial_Location
4	have in a quote	present	skull	the little life not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
5	think speech: other in a quote	present	Poor shadow = shadow		the matter	properly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present				of opinion	tree rules
7	is in a quote	future				necessary property	tree rules
8	do away in a quote	to-infinitive			all stillness	with skull; away property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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