Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 190

Being a princess, she was not obliged to stand upon much ceremony, so she said to him without hesitation, "Your illness consists in not being able to cast a shadow."

Who acts: disease, illness · What happens: be, not oblige, stand, say, consist, not be · To what, where: princess, much ceremony, gentleman, shadow · 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 (disease, illness), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 princess	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 obliged	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 princess	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 obliged	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 obliged	aux:pass
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 obliged	advmod
8	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stand	mark
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 obliged	xcomp
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 ceremony	case
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ceremony	amod
13	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stand	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 said	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 obliged	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	without	without	ADP	_	21 hesitation	case
21	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 consists	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 consists	punct
24	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 illness	nmod:poss
25	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 consists	nsubj
26	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 able	case
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 able	advmod
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 able	cop
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 consists	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 cast	mark
32	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 shadow	det
34	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cast	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 consists	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 consists	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		a princess				tree rules
2	not oblige	past · passive		a princess				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	stand	to-infinitive				much ceremony		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ceremony=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	disease		gentleman		without hesitation	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	consist in a quote	present	Your illness					tree rules
6	not is in a quote	gerund	Your illness not said here				able property	tree rules
7	cast in a quote	to-infinitive	Your illness not said here	a shadow				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product

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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