Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 124
As a man, I felt ashamed to go about without boots or clothes, and that exterior finish by which man is known.
Who acts: I · What happens: feel, go about, know · To what, where: exterior finish
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 (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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 man | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ashamed | xcomp |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 boots | case |
| 12 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 clothes | cc |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 boots | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 known | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 known | cc |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 finish | det |
| 18 | exterior | exterior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 finish | amod |
| 19 | finish | finish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 known | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 21 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finish | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 known | aux:pass |
| 24 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 felt | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | I | as a man; ashamed property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go about | to-infinitive | I not said here | without boots or clothes; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | present · passive | that exterior finish by which man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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