Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 140

The women declared that I was handsome, and so I became the man you now see me.

Who acts: women, I, you · What happens: declare, be, become, see · To what, where: man, 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 (women, I, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 women	det
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 declared	nsubj
3	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 handsome	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 handsome	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 handsome	cop
7	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 declared	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 became	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 declared	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 man	acl:relcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the women				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	I			handsome property	tree rules
3	become	past	I	the man			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	see	present	you	me	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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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