Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 131

I looked in, and saw what nobody else could see, or indeed ought to see; in fact, it is a bad world, and I would not care to be a man, but that men are of some importance.

Who acts: I, nobody, fact, men · What happens: look in, see, be, not care · To what, where: bad world, fact, man · 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 (I, nobody, fact, men), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 see	obj
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 see	nsubj
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 nobody	advmod
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saw	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ought	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 ought	cc
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	15 ought	advmod
15	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ought	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 world	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 fact	case
20	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 world	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fact	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 world	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 world	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 world	det
25	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 world	amod
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 care	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 care	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 care	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 care	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 care	advmod
32	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saw	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	36 man	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 man	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 care	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 importance	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 importance	cc
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 importance	mark
40	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 importance	nsubj
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 importance	cop
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 importance	case
43	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 importance	det
44	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	parataxis
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look in	past	I				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	see	could	nobody				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	see	to-infinitive	nobody not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	fact	a bad world	fact		tree rules
6	not care	would	I				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	a man			tree rules
8	is	present	men			of some importance	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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