Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 120

It is true I did not think much about it while I was with you, but you will remember that I was always much larger at sunrise and sunset, and in the moonlight even more visible than yourself, but I did not then understand my inner existence.

Who acts: human, I, you, my · What happens: be, not think, remember, not understand, exist · To what, where: inner existence · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (human, I, you, my), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 think	advmod
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	parataxis
8	much	much	ADV	_	7 think	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 think	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 you	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 you	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 you	cop
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 think	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 remember	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 remember	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 remember	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 remember	aux
20	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 larger	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 larger	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 larger	cop
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 larger	advmod
26	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 remember	parataxis
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 sunrise	case
28	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 larger	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sunset	cc
30	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sunrise	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 visible	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 visible	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 moonlight	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 moonlight	det
35	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 visible	obl
36	even	even	ADV	_	37 more	advmod
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 visible	advmod
38	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 larger	parataxis
39	than	than	ADP	_	40 yourself	case
40	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 visible	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 understand	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 understand	cc
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 understand	nsubj
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 understand	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 understand	advmod
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 understand	advmod
47	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 visible	parataxis
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 existence	nmod:poss
49	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 existence	amod
50	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 understand	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	human			true property	tree rules
2	not think speech: other	past · do-support	I			about human	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
3	is	past	I			with you	tree rules
4	remember	future	you				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	I		sunrise	large property	tree rules
6	not understand	past · do-support	I	my inner existence	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer existence=Stimulus
7	exist		my				nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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