Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 102

The blaze of light would have killed me, had I approached too near the maiden myself, but I was cautious, and took time, which is what every one ought to do."

Who acts: blaze, I, time, one · What happens: kill, have, approach, be, take, do · To what, where: light, maiden

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blaze, I, time, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blaze	det
2	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 killed	mark
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 killed	aux
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 blaze	acl:relcl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 killed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 blaze	punct
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 approached	nsubj
12	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	ccomp
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 approached	advmod
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 maiden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 approached	obl
17	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 maiden	nmod:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cautious	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 cautious	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 cautious	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cautious	cop
22	cautious	cautious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 had	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	parataxis
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 what	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 what	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 what	cop
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 time	conj
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 do	nsubj
33	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 do	aux
34	to	to	PART	_	35 do	mark
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 what	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would · perfect · passive	the blaze not said here	light				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result
2	have	past	the blaze					tree rules
3	approach	past	I		the maiden myself			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	I				cautious property	tree rules
5	take	past				time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	time					tree rules
7	do	ought	every one					vn act-114-1 «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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