Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 26

And he went on explaining things to me till my skull seemed lifted from my brain, and I declared that were I not such an old fellow, I would at once become a member of the Polytechnic Institution, that I might learn to look at the bright side of everything, although I was one of the happiest of men.

Who acts: series, I, that · What happens: go, explain, lift, declare, not be, become · To what, where: things, me, brain, old fellow, member, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (series, I, that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lifted	advcl
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 explaining	mark
5	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 explaining	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 explaining	obl
9	till	till	ADP	_	11 skull	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skull	nmod:poss
11	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explaining	obl
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lifted	aux:pass
13	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 become	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 brain	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brain	nmod:poss
16	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lifted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 declared	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 declared	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 declared	nsubj
20	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lifted	conj
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 fellow	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fellow	cop
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 fellow	nsubj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 fellow	advmod
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 fellow	det:predet
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fellow	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fellow	amod
28	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 declared	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 would	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 would	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 become	aux
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 would	obl
34	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 member	det
36	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 become	xcomp
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 Institution	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Institution	det
39	Polytechnic	Polytechnic	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Institution	compound
40	Institution	institution	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 member	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 learn	punct
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 learn	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 learn	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 learn	aux
45	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 become	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 look	mark
47	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 learn	xcomp
48	at	at	ADP	_	51 side	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 side	det
50	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 side	amod
51	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 look	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 everything	case
53	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	51 side	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 one	punct
55	although	although	SCONJ	_	58 one	mark
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 one	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 one	cop
58	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 look	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 happiest	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 happiest	det
61	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	58 one	nmod
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 men	case
63	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 happiest	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	series						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	explain speech: assert	gerund	series not said here	things	me		till my skull		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to i=Recipient
3	lift	past · passive				my brain			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: from brain=Destination
4	declare speech: other	past	I						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	not is a	past	that	such old fellow					tree rules
6	become	would		a member of the Polytechnic Institution					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	learn	might	I						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	look	to-infinitive	I not said here					at the bright side of everything	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at side=Theme
9	is a	past	I	one				of the happiest	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: «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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