Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 105

First I was a poet; now sold for a few pence as a lark; no doubt it was that accursed poetical nature which has metamorphosed me into such a poor harmless little creature.

Who acts: I, doubt · What happens: be, sell, accurs, metamorphose · To what, where: poet, accursed poetical nature, poor harmless little creature

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, doubt), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 poet	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 poet	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poet	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 poet	det
5	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 sold	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sold	advmod
8	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 poet	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 pence	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pence	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pence	amod
12	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sold	obl
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 lark	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lark	det
15	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sold	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 nature	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 doubt	det
18	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nature	nsubj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 nature	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 nature	cop
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 nature	mark
22	accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 nature	amod
23	poetical	poetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nature	amod
24	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poet	conj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 metamorphosed	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 metamorphosed	aux
27	metamorphosed	metamorphose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 nature	acl:relcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 metamorphosed	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	35 creature	case
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 creature	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 creature	det
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 creature	amod
33	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 creature	amod
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 creature	amod
35	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 metamorphosed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a poet and accursed poetical nature			first property	tree rules
2	sell	participle		a poet and accursed poetical nature not said here		now	for a few pence; as a lark	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for pence=Asset
3	accurs	participle						tree rules
4	is a	past	no doubt	accursed poetical nature				tree rules
5	metamorphose	present · perfect · passive		accursed poetical nature	such poor harmless little creature			tree rules

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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