Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 119
If you had gone there, you would not have remained a human being, whereas I became one; and at the same moment I became aware of my inner being, my inborn affinity to the nature of poetry.
Who acts: you, human, I · What happens: go, not remain, be, become
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 (you, human, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 remained | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 remained | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 remained | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 remained | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 remained | aux |
| 11 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 became | det |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 became | nsubj |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 became | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 16 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 18 became | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 became | nsubj |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 remained | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 became | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 became | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 became | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 moment | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 moment | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 moment | amod |
| 25 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 became | obl |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 became | nsubj |
| 27 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 became | conj |
| 28 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 became | xcomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 affinity | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 affinity | nmod:poss |
| 31 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 affinity | amod |
| 32 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 affinity | cop |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 affinity | punct |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 affinity | nmod:poss |
| 35 | inborn | inborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 affinity | amod |
| 36 | affinity | affinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 aware | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 nature | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 nature | det |
| 39 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 affinity | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 poetry | case |
| 41 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 nature | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | you | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not remain | would · perfect | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | human | become property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | past | I | moment | aware property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | is | gerund | of my inner inborn affinity; to the nature of poetry | 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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