Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 180
I feel crushed by it, as I used to feel in my former position with you.
Who acts: I · What happens: feel, crush, use
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 | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 feel | xcomp |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crushed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 used | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 used | nsubj |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 feel | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 feel | mark |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 position | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 position | nmod:poss |
| 14 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 position | amod |
| 15 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feel | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 position | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | crush | participle | I not said here | by feeling | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | use | past | I | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | I not said here | in my former position with you | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in position=Attribute |
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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