Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 81

I am in the most brilliant circumstances, but there came a sort of desire over me to see you once more before you die; you will die, I suppose?

Who acts: I, brilliant circumstances, you · What happens: be, come, see, die, suppose, sort · To what, where: brilliant circumstances, sort, you, desire

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 (I, brilliant circumstances, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 circumstances	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 circumstances	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 circumstances	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 circumstances	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 brilliant	advmod
6	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 circumstances	amod
7	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 came	expl
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 circumstances	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sort	det
13	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 desire	case
15	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sort	nmod
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 desire	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 came	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	obj
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 see	advmod
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 die	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 die	nsubj
25	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 see	advcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 die	punct
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 die	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 die	aux
29	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 circumstances	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 suppose	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 suppose	nsubj
32	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 die	parataxis
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 circumstances	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	present	I		the brilliant circumstances	tree rules
2	come	past	the brilliant circumstances not said here	a sort of desire over me	there	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sort=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	the brilliant circumstances not said here	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	die	present	you			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	die	future	you			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	suppose	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	sort			desire over me		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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