Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 86

“It is most remarkable: I never imagined that one's old shadow could come again as a man.”

Who acts: desire, thou, old shadow, one · What happens: be, not imagine, come, 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 (desire, thou, old shadow, one), 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 remarkable	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remarkable	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 remarkable	cop
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 remarkable	advmod
5	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 imagined	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 imagined	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 imagined	advmod
9	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remarkable	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 come	mark
11	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shadow	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 one	case
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shadow	amod
14	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 imagined	ccomp
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 man	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remarkable	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 remarkable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	desire		remarkable property	tree rules
2	not imagine in a quote	past	thou			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	come in a quote	could	one's old shadow	again	as a man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shadow in a quote		one			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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