Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 14

A man may be very unhappy, and yet exceedingly affected.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, affect

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unhappy	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 unhappy	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 unhappy	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 unhappy	advmod
6	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 affected	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 affected	cc
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	11 affected	advmod
10	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	11 affected	advmod
11	affected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 unhappy	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	a man					unhappy property	tree rules
2	affect	participle	a man not said here				yet	exceedingly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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