Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 149
I am quite in despair, for I take it to heart very much."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, take · To what, where: despair
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 despair | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 despair | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 despair | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 despair | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 heart | mark |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | I | despair | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme heart=Destination |
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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