Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 87

“It is really dreadful,” groaned he with increasing anxiety; “I cannot recognise East Street again; there is not a single decent shop from one end to the other!

Who acts: mind, dreadful, unintelligible, single decent shop · What happens: be, groan, increase, not recognise · To what, where: many, anxiety, East Street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, dreadful, unintelligible, single decent shop), 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 dreadful	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dreadful	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dreadful	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 dreadful	advmod
5	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 groaned	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dreadful	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 dreadful	punct
8	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 groaned	obj
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 increasing	mark
11	increasing	increase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 groaned	advcl
12	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 increasing	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 recognise	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 recognise	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 recognise	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 recognise	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 recognise	advmod
18	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 groaned	parataxis
19	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Street	compound
20	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 recognise	obj
21	again	again	ADV	_	18 recognise	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 is	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 recognise	conj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 shop	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 shop	det
27	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shop	amod
28	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shop	amod
29	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 end	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 end	nummod
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shop	nmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 other	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 other	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 end	nmod
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	mind				dreadful property	tree rules
2	groan	past	dreadful	many				tree rules
3	increase	gerund	dreadful not said here	anxiety				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer anxiety=Patient
4	not recognise in a quote	can	unintelligible	East Street		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer street=Stimulus
5	be in a quote	present	a single decent shop from one end to the other		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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