Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 189

He felt as if the world was now nothing to him, as if he were lying beyond it, with no one to think of him.

Who acts: weather, world · What happens: feel, be, lie, think · To what, where: nothing, weather, world

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, world), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 nothing	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 nothing	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nothing	cop
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 nothing	advmod
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 felt	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nothing	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lying	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 lying	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 lying	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lying	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lying	aux
17	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 felt	advcl
18	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lying	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 one	case
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lying	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 think	mark
25	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 one	acl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 think	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	weather						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past	the world	nothing	weather		now		tree rules
3	lie	past · progressive	weather			world			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond it=Location
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	weather not said here					of weather	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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