Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 8
This was a very unusual spectator for me, and I felt anxious to know who he was.
Who acts: This, I, man · What happens: be, feel, know · To what, where: unusual spectator · 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 (This, I, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 spectator | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spectator | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spectator | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unusual | advmod |
| 5 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spectator | amod |
| 6 | spectator | spectator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 spectator | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spectator | conj |
| 13 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 anxious | advcl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 know | ccomp |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 who | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 who | cop |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spectator | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a unusual spectator | for me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | past | I | anxious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | man | 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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