Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 37

I said so to him, and he smiled; and I could have sworn that he was one of these ancient deities in disguise, or, at all events, that he belonged to the race of the gods.

Who acts: I, lecturer, gods · What happens: say, smile, swear, be, belong, race · To what, where: lecturer, events, 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 (I, lecturer, gods), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 him	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smiled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smiled	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 smiled	nsubj
9	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sworn	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sworn	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sworn	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sworn	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sworn	aux
15	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 one	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	cop
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sworn	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 deities	case
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 deities	det
22	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deities	amod
23	deities	deity	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 disguise	case
25	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deities	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 events	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 events	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 or	punct
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 events	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 events	det
31	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sworn	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 belonged	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 belonged	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 belonged	nsubj
35	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sworn	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 race	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 race	det
38	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 belonged	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 gods	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 gods	det
41	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 race	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I		lecturer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	smile	past	lecturer					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	swear	could · perfect	I			all events		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	lecturer	one			of this ancient deities in disguise	tree rules
5	belong	past	lecturer				to the race of the gods	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	race		the gods					nom race «event 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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