Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 40

But as for me, I had gone quite beyond all lapse of time, and had become a cipher and a nothing.

Who acts: I, time · What happens: go, become, lapse · To what, where: lapse, cipher

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, time), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 gone	cc
2	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 me	case
3	for	for	ADP	_	2 as	fixed
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gone	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 gone	advmod
10	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	12 lapse	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 lapse	det
12	lapse	lapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 time	case
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lapse	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 become	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 become	cc
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 become	aux
18	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 gone	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cipher	det
20	cipher	cipher	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 become	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 nothing	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 nothing	det
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 cipher	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	I		all lapse of time	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond lapse=Location
2	become	past · perfect	I not said here	a cipher		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	lapse		time			nom lapse «act intransitive»: of=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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