Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 76

“Nay; I cannot recover from my surprise!” said the learned man.

Who acts: learned man, my · What happens: not recover, say, learn, surprise · To what, where: surprise · 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 (learned man, my), 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	_	7 recover	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	7 recover	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Nay	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 recover	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 recover	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 recover	advmod
7	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 surprise	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 surprise	nmod:poss
10	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 recover	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 recover	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 recover	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not recover in a quote	can	the learned man = man	my surprise	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source
2	say speech: express	past	the learned man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	learn	participle			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	surprise in a quote		my		nom surprise «feeling 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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