Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 95

Presently black night overshadowed our enthusiast, who had so entirely missed his part of copying-clerk at a police-office; some vast object seemed to be thrown over him.

Who acts: enthusiast, vast object · What happens: overshadow, have, miss, seem, throw · To what, where: enthusiast, part

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 (enthusiast, vast object), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 overshadowed	advmod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 overshadowed	obl:unmarked
4	overshadowed	overshadow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 enthusiast	nmod:poss
6	enthusiast	enthusiast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 overshadowed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enthusiast	parataxis
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 missed	advmod
11	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	12 missed	advmod
12	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	ccomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 part	nmod:poss
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 missed	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 clerk	case
16	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 clerk	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 copying	punct
18	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	23 office	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 office	det
21	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 office	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 police	punct
23	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 clerk	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 object	det
26	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 object	amod
27	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overshadowed	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	31 thrown	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 thrown	aux:pass
31	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 seemed	xcomp
32	over	over	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thrown	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 overshadowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	overshadow	participle		our enthusiast	night	presently property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent enthusiast=Patient
2	have	past	our enthusiast				tree rules
3	miss	past	our enthusiast not said here	doubt's part of copying clerk at a police office		entirely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus
4	seem	past	some vast object				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	throw	to-infinitive · passive	some vast object not said here			over doubt	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: over he=Destination

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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