Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 136
They had so much fear of me, and yet how dearly they loved me.
Who acts: persons · What happens: have, love, fear · To what, where: much fear, me
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 (persons), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fear | amod |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fear | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 loved | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 loved | advmod |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 dearly | advmod |
| 12 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 14 loved | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 loved | nsubj |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 loved | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | persons = person | much fear of me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | past | persons = person | me | yet | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | fear | me | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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