Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 49

This annoyed him: not so much because the shadow was gone, but because he knew there was a story about a man without a shadow.

Who acts: annoyed, music · What happens: be, know · To what, where: story · 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 (annoyed, music), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 annoyed	nsubj
2	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gone	nsubj
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 annoyed	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 much	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	12 gone	advmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 gone	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shadow	det
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 knew	cc
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	parataxis
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 knew	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 story	det
21	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knew	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 man	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 story	nmod
25	without	without	ADP	_	27 shadow	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 shadow	det
27	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knew	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	annoyed			gone property	tree rules
2	know	past	music	a story		about a man; without a shadow	tree rules
3	be	past			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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